262 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Five Hundred and Tlilrty-third Meeting. 



April 12, 1864. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters relative to ex- 

 changes ; also, letters from Professor Thomas Graham of Lon- 

 don, Professor Max Miiller of Oxford, Dean Milman, Professor 

 J. P. Lesley of Philadelphia, Professor Ogden N. Rood of 

 Columbia College, Major-General George G. Meade, Mr. Ed- 

 ward Pearce, and Dr. William Watson, in acknowledgment of 

 their election into the Academy. 



Mr. J. A. Lowell presented informally and read a report 

 from the Committee on the Revision of the Statutes, recom- 

 mending certain amendments. The report was laid on the 

 table, to be taken up for action at the Annual Meeting. 



Professor Rogers, from the committee on the subject, read 

 for information of the Academy a digest of the proposed addi- 

 tions to the Standing Votes. 



It was moved by Dr. B. A. Gould, " That the several por- 

 tions of the Proceedings of the Academy be distributed by 

 mail to the Fellows and Members, whenever ready for distri- 

 bution." It was ordered that this motion be brought up at 

 the Annual Meeting. 



Mr. Safford presented a Memoir by Mr. G. W. Hill on the 

 Great Comet of 1858. 



Dr. Dean exhibited some photo-lithographic representations 

 of the medulla oblongata; being illustrations of his memoir 

 upon the subject, recently published by the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. 



The President presented a Memoir by Professor Tread well, 

 " On the Construction of Hooped Cannon, — being a Sequel to 

 the Memoir on the Construction of Cannon of great Caliber, 

 &c., published in the Sixth Volume of the Memoirs of the 

 Academy." 



Professor Tuckerman presented the following paper : — 



