4 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Three Iiundred aiid sixty-tliird meeting. 



June 8, 1852. — Adjourned Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Recording Secretary being necessarily absent, Pro- 

 fessor Levering was chosen Recording Secretary pro tern. 



Professor Levering, in behalf of the committee appointed 

 at the last meeting to revise the classification of Fellows and 

 Honorary Members of the Academy, presented a revised clas- 

 sification, together with the following report. 



" 1. That the word section be substituted for division, as the name 

 of the subdivisions of the classes ; 



" 2. That the second section of Class II., originally named the 

 Division of Botany and Vegetable Physiology, be known as the Sec- 

 tioii o^Botany ; 



" 3. That the third section of Class II., originally named the Di- 

 vision of Zoology and Animal Physiology, be known as the Section 

 of Zoology and Physiology ; 



" 4. That the first section of Class III., originally named the Division 

 of Moral and Intellectual Philosojjhy, be known as the Section of 

 Philosophy and Jurisprudence ; 



" 5. That the second section of Class III., originally named the Di- 

 vision of Philology and Ethnology, be known as the Section of Phi- 

 lology and Archceology ; 



" 6. That the third section of Class III., originally named the Di- 

 vision of Politics, Political Economy, and Jurisprudence, be known 

 as the Section of Political Ecorwmy and History ; 



"7. That the fourth section of Class III., originally named the Di- 

 vision of Esthetics, be known as the Section of Literature and the 

 Fine Arts ; 



" 8. That the revised classification of the Fellows, Associate Fel- 

 lows, and Foreign Honorary Members of the Academy, herewith re- 

 ported, be permanently adopted by the Academy." 



The report of the committee was accepted, and the amend- 

 ments recommended were adopted by the Academy. The 

 classification recommended was laid upon the table until the 

 next meeting, for examination by the Fellows of the Academy. 



Hon. S. A. Eliot stated to the Academy, that the Corpora- 



