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The Treasurer moved the following appropriations for the 

 current year, viz. : — 



For general expenses, $1100.00 



For publications, 700.00 



For books, 600.00 



These appropriations were voted. 



Michel Chasles of Paris was elected a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class I. Section 1, in place of the late M. Plana. 



Otto Struve, of the Imperial Russian Observatory at Pulkova, 

 was elected a Foreign Honorary Member in Class I. Section 2, 

 in place of the late M. Ostrogradsky, of Class I. Section 1. 



Professor Robert Bunsen of Heidelberg was elected a For- 

 eign Honorary Member in Class I. Section 3, in place of the 

 late Professor Heinrich Rose. 



On the motion of Dr. A. A. Gould it was 



" Voted, that it would be agreeable to the Academy, and probably 

 useful, to have meetings of a social character in addition to its regular 

 meetings ; and that the Secretaries be authorized to make any needful 

 arrangements in this respect." 



Five hundred and forty-second Meeting. 



December 6, 1864. — Special Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President called the attention of the Academy to the 

 decease, since the last annual report of the Council, of two 

 members of the Academy, — Hon. Josiah Quincy of the Resi- 

 dent Fellows, and Professor Benjamin Silliman of New Haven, 

 of the Associate Fellows. 



Professor Goodwin presented the following paper, entitled, 



A Revision of the Doctrine of Conditional Sentences in Greek 



and Latin. 



There is hardly a duty incumbent on scholars more important than 



that of constantly revising the familiar doctrines which are taught in 



our schools as a part of elementary instruction. At the same time 



there are few duties so generally neglected. No amount of labor 



