PROCEEDINGS. 



Eight hundred and eighty-third Meeting. 



May 13, 1896. — Annual Meeting. 



Vice-President Geoi-Q-e L. Gooclale in the chair. 



The chair aunounced the death of Atticus Green Haygood, 

 Associate Fellow. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following letters : from 

 Charles Lane Poor and T. R. Lounsbury, acknowledging their 

 election as Associate Fellows ; from the Librarian of the Boston 

 Public Librar}', announcing the preparation of a list of serial pub- 

 lications now taken in the principal local libraries, and inviting 

 correspondence from persons owning periodicals not to be found 

 in public collections and willing to offer them for occasional 

 consultation ; from the College of New Jersey, inviting the 

 Academy to send a delegate to the sesquicentennial celebration 

 of the founding of the College ; and from the Principal of the 

 University of Glasgow and the Lord Provost of Glasgow, in- 

 viting the Academy to appoint a representative to attend the 

 jubilee of Lord Kelvin on the 15th and 16th of June next. 

 The chair appointed William Everett delegate to the celebra- 

 tion at Princeton.* 



The Corresponding Secretary read the Report of the Council. 



The Treasurer presented his annual report, of which the fol- 

 lowing is an abstract : — 



* Mr. Everett being unable at tlie last moment to attend, his place was filled by 

 the appointment of Horace E. Scudder, as substitute. 



