PROCEEDINGS. 



Eight hundred and sixty-seventh Meeting. 



May 9, 1894. — Annual Meeting. 



The Peesident in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following letters : 

 from the Royal Society of London, on the project of making 

 a catalogue of scientific papers by means of international 

 co-operation ; from the Royal Society oi Canada, inviting tlie 

 Academy to send delegates to its Twelfth General Meeting 

 on the 22d of Ma}'' ; from Ad. de Marignac, announcing the 

 death of his father, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, a 

 Foreign Honorar}^ Member of the Academy ; and from 

 Francis M. Green and W. C. Sabine, acknowledging their 

 election into the Academy. 



Voted, To accept the invitation of the Royal Society of 

 Canada, and the President was authorized to appoint a 

 delegate. 



The Report of the Council of the Academy was read and 

 accepted. 



The Reports of the Librarian, of the Treasurer, and of the 

 C. M. Warren Committee were read and accepted. 



Notice of a proposed change in the statutes was given 

 by Charles L. Jackson, viz. to increase the number of 

 Vice-Presidents so as to have one from each Class. This 

 proposal was referred to a Committee consisting of C. L. 

 Jackson, S. H. Scudder, and F. W. Putnam. 



The President appointed, as a Committee of Co-operation 

 on the project of making a catalogue of scientific papers, 

 C. L. Jackson, H. P. Bowditch, and Denman W. Ross. 



