382 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



late Francis Amory and expenses connected therewith, twenty- 

 five hundred dollars ($2500.), by accepting twenty-two thousand 

 five hundred dollars ($22,500.) in lieu of the legacy of twenty-five 

 thousand dollars ($25,000.) given to it by the will of the said 

 Amory. It was also 



Voted, That the Treasurer of the Academy be authorized to 

 receive and receipt for said legacy. 



The annual election resulted in the choice of the following 

 officers and committees : — 



Henry P. Walcott, President. 

 Elihu Thomson, Vice-President for Class I. 

 William M. Davis, Vice-President for Class II. 

 A. Lawrence Lowell, Vice-President for Class III. 

 Harry W. Tyler, Corresponding Secretary. 

 William Watson, Recording Secretary. 

 Henry H. Edes, Treasurer. 

 Arthur G. Webster, Librarian. 



Councillors for Four Years. 



Harvey N. Davis, of Class I. 

 Benjamin L. Robinson, of Class II. 

 Fred N. Robinson, of Class III. 



Finance Committee. 



Henry P. Walcott, John Trowbridge, 



George V. Leverett. 



Rumford Committee. 



Charles R. Cross Elihu Thomson, 



Edward C. Pickering Louis Bell, 



Arthur G. W t ebster, Arthur A. Noyes, 



Theodore Lyman. 



C. M. Warren Committee. 



Henry P. Talbot, Gregory P. Baxter, 



Walter L. Jennings, . Arthur A. Noyes, 



Charles L. Jackson, Arthur D. Little, 



William H. Walker. 



