616 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Samuel Hubbard Scudder for his faithful and efficient services 

 as Corresponding Secretary. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



James Mason Crafts, of Boston, as Resident Fellow in Class 

 I., Section 3 (Chemistry). 



Joseph Hodges Choate, of New York, as Associate Fellow in 

 Class in., Section 1 (Philosophy and Jurisprudence), in place 

 of the late Thomas Mclntyre Cooley. 



William Wirt Howe, of New Orleans, as Associate Fellow in 

 Class in., Section 1. 



William Mitchell, of Saint Paul, as Associate Fellow in Class 

 III., Section 1, in place of the late Ezekiel Gilman Robinson. 



Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bart., of London, as Foreign 

 Honorary Member in Class III., Section 3 (Political Economy 

 and Historj'). 



The vacancies in the Auditino- Committee occasioned bv the 

 resignation of Eliot C. Clarke and the death of John C. Ropes 

 were filled by the appointment of the following 



Auditing Committee : 

 Henry G. Denny, William L. Richaedson. 



On the recommendation of the Rumford Committee, it was 

 Voted, That the Academy appropriate one hundred dollars 

 ($100) to Theodore W. Richards for the prosecution of a re- 

 search on the transition point of crystallized salts. 



Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to make arrange- 

 ments for the sale to the public of the Life and Works of Count 

 Rumford. 



John S. Kingsley read a paper entitled " The Ancestry of the 

 Mammalia." 



The following papers were presented by title : — 

 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Univer- 

 sity. New Series. — No. XVIII. 



I. New Species and Varieties of Mexican Plants. By J. 

 M. Greenman. 



