238 PKOCEEDINQS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Five hundred and thirtieth Meeting. 



January 27, 1864. — Statute Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



On motion of Dr. B. A. Gould, it was voted that a commit- 

 tee be appointed to consider the expediency of expunging the 

 words "hereafter elected" in Chapter IX., Section 2, of the 

 Statutes of the Academy, and to consider whether any other, 

 and, if any, what changes in the Statutes are desirable. 

 Messrs. J. A. Lowell, Parsons, Sparks, Winthrop, and B. A. 

 Gould were appointed to serve on this committee. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson, to be a Resident Fellow in Class 

 III., Section 4. 



Mr. Richard H. Dana, Jr., to be a Resident Fellow in Class 

 III., Section 1. 



Professor J. P. Lesley of Philadelphia, to be an Associate 

 Fellow in Class 11. , Section 1. 



Professor Wyman presented a Memoir " On the Develop- 

 ment of Raia Batis.^' 



Five hundred and thirty-first Meeting. 



February 9, 1864. — Adjourned Statute Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Professor Lovering, from the Rumford Committee, presented 

 the following Report. 



"The Academy having voted (June 1, 1862), that six hundred dol- 

 lars be paid to Philander Shaw, to be expended by him in experi- 

 ments or investigations relative to air-engines, the Rumford Committee 

 have considered themselves under obligation to watch the progress of 

 these and similar experiments, &c., and occasionally to report upon 

 them to the Academy. 



