ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



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Annual Meeting, January 3d, 1870. 



President in the Chair, 



Thirty members present. 



The following gentlemen were elected Honorary Members 

 Prof. Henry Milne Edwards, Paris, France. 

 Prof. Robert Bunsen, Heidelberg, Germany. 

 Prof. H. L. F. Helmholtz, Berlin, Germany. 

 Prof. Jas. D. Dana, New Haven, Conn. 

 Dr. Jeffries Wyman, Boston, Mass. 

 Dr. George Engelmann, St. Louis, Mo. 

 Prof. Benjamin Pierce, Cambridge, Mass. 

 Prof. T. H. Huxley, London, England. 

 Dr. J. D. Hooker, London, England. 



The President read his usual annual address, which was very 

 satisfactory as to the condition of the Academy, etc. 



The Treasurer read his report, stating that the Academy was 

 free from debt for the first time in many years. 



The report of the Director of the Museum showed an improve- 

 ment in that department of the Academy. 



The Librarian's Report showed that the whole library had been 

 re-arranged by Dr. Cooper, and the foreign works all catalogued, 

 in addition to those in the English language before catalogued by 

 ]Mr. E. Brooks. Also, that the number of books received from all 

 sources, was annually increasing, being 189 the past year, and 

 only 59 in 1868, though it was considered expedient by the Coun- 

 cil to stop the subscription to most of the periodicals taken for two 

 years past and to offer in exchange the publications of the Academy 

 to those of them not before on the exchange list. 



The following gentlemen were elected officers for the ensuing 

 year: 



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