OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



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John Stuart Mill, of London, was elected a Foreign Honor- 

 ary Member in the Section of Political Economy and History. 



Manuel J. Johnson, Director of the RadclifFe Observatory, 

 Oxford, was elected a Foreign Honorary Member in the Sec- 

 tion of Practical Astronomy and Geodesy. 



Four hundred and tliirty-fourtli meeting. 



January 13, 1857. — Monthly Meeting. 



The Academy met at the house of the Hon. Robert C. 

 Winthrop. The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Dr. George 



B. Wood, Dr. Isaac Hays, and Laurens P. Hickok, accepting 

 Fellowship ; from the Essex Institute, the American Antiqua- 

 rian Society, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the Society 

 of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Professor Farada^^, and 

 Sir Charles Babbage, acknowledging the receipt of the Acad- 

 emy's publications ; from the American Oriental Society, ac- 

 knowledging the same, and presenting Vol. V. No. 2 of its 

 own Journal ; and from the Societe Nationale d'Agriculture, 

 &c. de Lyon, and the Academic Nationale des Sciences, ^c. 

 de Lyon, presenting their publications. 



Professor Agassiz reminded the Academy of the recent 

 death of a distinguished associate in the following words : — 



" It is the first time we meet since the death of the Hon. Francis 



C. Gray, one of our fellow-members. Though there are others longer 

 acquainted with Mr. Gray than myself, who are better qualified to 

 speak of his general merits, allow me to take . this opportunity to 

 make known to you some incidents relating to the last objects upon 

 which his mind was seriously engaged. I have not had the happiness 

 of knowing Mr. Gray intimately for many years ; but for the last two 

 years peculiar circumstances, which are among the most fortunate of 

 my life, have brought me gradually nearer to him, and enabled me to 

 become more closely acquainted with his extensive attainments, and 

 the great powers of his vigorous and clear intellect, and to appreciate 

 fully the kindness of his feelings, and his unbounded benevolence. 



" There is hardly any field of intellectual activity which did not 



