6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Messrs. Channing, Agassiz, Eliot, A. Gray, ShiirtlefF, and 

 Emerson were appointed a committee to consider the propriety 

 of a course of public lectures to be given by Fellows of the 

 Academy, or other ways of increasing the fund for publication. 



Professor Agassiz offered by title two papers: — 



1st. Monograph of the North American Crawfishes (Asta- 

 cidea). 



2d. Investigation of some Points of the Natural History of 

 the Higher Animals, bearing upon the Origin, Unity, and Di- 

 versity of Man. 



Three hundred and sixty-fourth, meeting. 



June 22, 1852. — Monthly Meeting. 



The Corresponding Secretary and subsequently the Pres- 

 ident in the chair. 



Professor Agassiz, in behalf of the committee appointed to 

 consider the best means of increasing the Academy's publica- 

 tion fund, reported that the committee were unanimous in rec- 

 ommending that a course of public lectures of a popular char- 

 acter be given by Fellows of the Academy during the ensuing 

 winter ; that the President be requested to commence the 

 course by an address, setting forth the objects and aim of the 

 course, and that each Section of the Academy appoint one of 

 its number to deliver one lecture upon some special subject 

 belonging to, and prominent in, the Section's sphere of re- 

 search. 



He offered the following resolution : — 



" Resolved, That the President appoint a committee of twelve, con- 

 sisting of one Fellow from each Section of the Academy, whose duty 

 it shall be to call together their respective Sections for the selection 

 of lecturers ; and to appoint a sub-committee for attending to the 

 necessary arrangements for the delivery of the course of lectures." 



The resolution was adopted, and the following gentlemen 

 were appointed, the President, on motion of Mr. Emerson, 

 being requested to represent the Section of Botany : Messrs. 



