48 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Three Iiiindred and eighty-second meeting. 



August 10, 1853. — Quarterly Meeting. 



The Yice-President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Chevalier 

 Bunsen and George Grote, Esq., acknowledging their election 

 as Foreign Honorary Members of the Academy. 



Dr. Gray called the attention of the Academy to the death 

 of one of its Foreign Honorary Members, Adrien de Jussieii, 

 of Paris, and made some remarks on the estimable character 

 and eminent scientific services of this last representative of 

 the illustrious line of the Jussieus. 



Three hundred and eighty-third meeting. 



September 28, 1853. — Adjourned Quarterly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from August 

 Boeckh and R. Lepsius, of Berlin, acknowledging their elec- 

 tion as Foreign Honorary Members of the Academy. 



Professor Joseph Winlock, of Kentucky, now resident in 

 Cambridge, and Rev. Thomas Hill, of Waltham, were elected 

 Fellows of the Academy in the Section of Mathematics. 



Dr. B. A. Gould, Jr. communicated to the Academy the 

 fact, that there exists an error in the formula given in the 

 blanks for the reduction of transit observations ; and that all 

 the observations in this country, and also the Greenwich ob- 

 servations, are incorrect by the amount of this error, the 

 maximum of which amounts to one third of a second of time. 



Professor A. Gray laid before the Academy a paper entitled 

 "Characters of some new Genera of Plants, mostly from 

 Polynesia, in the Collection of the United States Exploring 

 Expedition, under Captain Wilkes." (In continuation of those 

 communicated May 4, 1852 ; Proceedings, Vol. H. p. 323.) 



DICLIDOCARPUS, Nov. Gen. Tiliacearum. 

 Flores polygamo-dioici ? Calyx 3-bracteolatus, 5-phyllus ; sepalis 



