PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN ACADEMY 



OF 



ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



SELECTED FROM THE RECORDS. 



VOL. III. 



Three hundred and sixty-second meeting. 



May 25, 1852. — Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Professor Lovering presented the annual report of the 

 Treasurer, in his absence, for the past year, a part of which 

 was read by the Recording Secretary. It was then accepted. 



The annual report of the Committee on the Library was 

 read by Dr. A. A. Gould, and accepted. 



The annual report of the Committee of Publication was 

 read by Professor Lovering, and accepted. 



Professor A. Gray, in behalf of the committee to whom 

 was referred the amendment of the third section of Chapter 

 Vn. of the Statutes of the Academy, proposed by Dr. B. A, 

 Gould at the last statute meeting, recommended that it be 

 adopted ; namely, that the second clause of the third section 

 of Chapter VIL of the Statutes of the Academy be replaced 

 by the following : — 



i' The Council for Nomination shall consist of the President and 

 the two Secretaries, together with three Fellows from each of the 

 three Classes of the Academy, to be elected by ballot at the annual 

 meeting. And it shall be the duty of the Council, in nominating As- 

 sociates and Foreign Honorary Members, to consult the wishes of 

 that section of the Academy to which the candidate, if elected, would 

 belong." 



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