308 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Professor William R. Nichols, by Professor Francis H. Storer, 

 and that they would appear in the Proceedings. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Winfield Scott Chaplin, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 4. 



Eliot Channing Clarke, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class I., Section 4. 



The annual election resulted in the choice of the following 

 officers : — 



Joseph Lovering, President. 

 Francis Paekman, Vice-President. 

 Josiah P. Cooke, Corresponding Secretary. 

 William Watson, Recording Secretary. 

 Augustus Lowell, Treasurer. 

 Henry W. Haynes, Librarian. 



Council. 



WOLCOTT GlBBS, 



Charles L. Jackson, \ of Class I. 



Charles R. Cross, 



Sereno Watson, 



Asa Gray, ) of Class II. 



Henry W. Williams, 



John C. Ropes, 



Frederick W. Putnam, \ of Class HI. 



Justin Winsor, 



Rumford Committee. 



Wolcott Gibbs, Josiah P. Cooke, 



Edward C. Pickering, Joseph Lovering, 

 John Trowbridge, George B. Clark, 



Erasmus D. Leavitt, Jr. 



Member of the Committee of Finance. 

 Thomas T. Bouve\ 



