,516 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



made the great Observatory a delightful home for the time to those 

 who came from foreign lands. 



The elections into the ranks of the Academy during the past year 

 have been unusually few ; consisting of two Resident Fellows, of whom 

 one is placed in Class II. Section 3, one in Class II. Section 4. Three 

 Foreign Honorary Members, all in Class I., are placed severally in 

 Sections 1, 2, and 3 of that Class. 



One of the members (Professor H. D. Rogers of Glasgow) has been 

 transferred from the list of Resident to that of Associate Fellows, in 

 Class II. Section 1. 



Ill conclusion, the Council submitted a nomination to fill 

 the vacancy in the list of Foreign Honorary Members made 

 by the decease of M. Struve ; also a nomination to the list of 

 Associate Fellows. 



Professor Levering, as Chairman of the Committee of Pub- 

 lication, presented the report of the committee, accounting 

 for expenditures in printing the Memoirs and Proceedings 

 under the appropriations of the past year. 



Dr. A. A. Gould, as Chairman of the Library Committee, 

 presented the Annual Report on the condition of the Library. 



The Annual Report of the Treasurer, attested by the Au- 

 ditors, was read, accepted, and ordered to be entered on the 

 records. 



The following appropriations were made for the ensuing 

 year : — ^ 



For General Expenses $1,200.00 



For the Library 700.00 



For Publications 800.00 



The following report of the Rumford Committee was ac- 

 cepted, and the vote recommended was passed: — 



WJiereas, Prof. Daniel Treadwell, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 

 between the years 1840 and 1845, did devise, execute, and publish 

 certain improvements in the management of heat, by which guns of 

 great strength and endurance were constructed, — especially by the 

 coiling of iron in the direction of its greatest tenacity, and welding 

 the coils by means of moulds and mandrils and hydraulic pressure 



