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Jacob Bigelow, .... President. 



Daniel Treadwell, . . Vice-President. 



Asa Gray, Corresponding Secretary. 



Samuel Kneeland, Jr., . Recording Secretary. 



Edward Wigglesworth, . Treasurer. 



Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Librarian. 



The several Standing Committees were appointed as fol- 

 lows : — 



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., 



Nathaniel B. Shurtleff. 



The following gentlemen were chosen Members of the 

 Council for nominating Foreign Honorary Members, viz. : — 



Joseph Lovering, 



Benjamin Peirce, J> of Class I. 



Benjamin A. Gould, Jr. 



John A. Lowell, • 



Louis Agassiz, J> of Class H. 



John B. S. Jackson, 



James Walker, 



Jared Sparks, J- of Class HL 



Nathan Appleton, 



Professor Gray presented a paper entitled, " Caroli a Linne 

 ad Bernardum de Jussieu ineditse, et miituas Bernardi ad 

 Linnaeum Epistolse ; curante Adriano de Jussieu." Referred 

 by the Publishing Committee. 



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