356 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Five huuilred and tliirty-iiiiith Meeting. 



September 20, 1864. — Adjourned Statute Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Professor Lovering, from tlie Committee of Publication, re- 

 ported that the price of the Memoirs of the Academy had 

 been fixed at eight dollars per volume, and the price of the 

 Proceedings at two dollars per volume ; members being pro- 

 vided with copies, according to a standing vote, at half these 

 pfices. 



Mr. Bowditcli reported from the Committee of Finance a 

 recommendation to raise the salary of the Assistant Librarian 

 to six hundred dollars ; and this recommendation was adopted. 



A list of the duplicates in the Library, prepared by the 

 Assistant Librarian, was referred to the Committee on the 

 Library, with powers to effect exchanges. 



Mr, George Livermore was elected Treasurer of tlie Acad- 

 emy, in place of Mr. Wiggles worth, resigned ; and on the 

 motion of Mr. Bowditch, the following vote was passed : — 



" Whereas, Edward Wigglesworth, Esq. has been compelled by ill- 

 health to resign the office of Treasurer of the Academy, — Voted, that 

 the Auditing Committee, Messrs. T. T. Bouve and Dr. Ware, be in- 

 structed to audit his accounts and receive from him the property of the 

 Academy which he has in charge, and give him their receipt for the 

 same, and deliver said property to his successor. 



On the motion of Mr. E. C. Cabot, it was voted that the 

 thanks of the American Academy be expressed to Mr. Wig- 

 glesworth for his services as Treasurer, and that the Fel- 

 lows deeply regret the ill-health which has rendered his with- 

 drawal from the office necessary. 



Professor Winlock made the following communication : — 



" I wish to call the attention of the Academy for a moment to a 

 paper read at a recent meeting, on the Right Ascension of the Pole 

 Star. This paper contained a criticism on the investigation from 

 which is derived the mean place of this star used in the computations 



