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The annual election resulted in the choice of the following 

 officers : — 



Charles F. Adams, President. 



Joseph Lovering, Vice-President. 



JosiAH P. Cooke, Jr., Corresponding Secretary. 



Edward C. Pickering, Recording Secretary. 



Edmund Quincy, Treasurer and Librarian. 



Council. 

 John B. Henck, \ 

 WoLCOTT GiBBs, \ of Class I. 



Charles W. Eliot, ) 



Alexander Agassiz, \ 



John A. Lowell, [ of Class 11. 



Benj. E. Cotting, ) 



George E. Ellis, \ 



Andrew P. Peabody, \ of Class III. 



Charles C. Perkins, ) 



Rumford Committee. 

 Morrill Wyman. James B. Francis. 



WOLCOTT GiBBS. JOHN M. OrDWAY. 



Edward C. Pickering. Stephen P. Ruggles. 

 John Trowbridge. 



Committee on Finance. 



Charles Francis Adams, ) ^ . 

 „ „ ) ex officio. 



Edmund Quincy, ) *^ 



Thomas T. Bouve. 



The following Committees were appointed on the nomina- 

 tion of the President : — 



Committee on Publication. 



Alexander Agassiz. W. R. Goodwin. 



John Trowbridge. 



