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Five bundred and t-^ventjr-elglitli Meeting. 



December 8, 1863. — Adjourned Statute Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Treasurer reported that it was not advisable to make 

 any change in the mode of accounting for the trust funds of 

 the Academy. On the motion of Professor Levering, this re- 

 port was accepted. 



Messrs. B. A. Gould, Levering, A. Gray, Beck, and Win^ 

 throp were appointed a committee to consider and report 

 upon the meaning of Chapter IX., Sections 2 and 3, of the 

 Statutes of the Academy, in relation to nominations made at 

 adjourned Stated Meetings. 



Five hundred and tvrenty-nlnth Meeting. 



January 12, 1864. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from George Ban- 

 croft and Frederic E. Church of New York, from Henry C. 

 Cary of Philadelphia, John P. Kennedy of Philadelphia, and 

 William Lawrence of London, in acknowledgment of their 

 election as members of the Academy. 



The President called the attention of the Academy to 

 the recent decease of Dr. Francis Boott of London, of the 

 Associate Fellows ; and also of Mr. Francis Alger, a Resi- 

 dent Fellow. 



Dr. Dean exhibited a series of photographs, obtained by the 

 microscope, of sections of the medulla oblongata of man and 

 other mammals. 



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