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Joseph Lovering, 



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J. I. BowDiTCH, }■ of Class I. 



Benjamin A. Gould, Jr. 



Louis Agassiz, 



John B. S. Jackson, ^ of Class II. 



Jeffries Wyman, 



James Walker, 



Jared Sparks, ^ of Class III. 



Nathan Appleton, 



The several Standing Committees were appointed, on nomi- 

 nation from the chair, as follows : — 



Rumford Committee. 



Eben N. Horsford, Joseph Lovering, 



Daniel Treadwell, Henry L. Eustis, 



Morrill Wyman. 



Committee of Publication. 

 Joseph Lovering, Louis Agassiz, Francis Bowen. 



Committee on the Library. 



Augustus A. Gould, Benjamin A. Gould, Jr., 



J. P. Cooke, Jr. 



Auditing Coiiimittee. 

 Charles Jackson, Jr. Thomas T. Bouve. 



Four hundred and sixteexktli meeting. 



August 8, 1855. — duARTERLY Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Recording Secretary read a communication addressed 

 to him by J. J. Dixwell, Esq., requesting in behalf of Dart- 

 mouth College that the Publications of the Academy be pre- 

 sented to that Institution. 



On motion of Dr. A. A. Gould, seconded by Professor Asa 

 Gray, it was voted, that, in accordance with the request of Mr, 



