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The committee appointed at the Annual Meeting, to suggest 

 some special rules in respect to the nomination of foreign 

 members, and also to report suitable provisions for the future 

 amendment of the Statutes, made a report, proposing the fol- 

 lowing additional Statutes, which were adopted, viz. : — 



" Chap. VII, Additional Statute. Foreign Honorary Members may 

 be chosen by the same vote as Fellows ; but only at the statute meet- 

 ings of May and November, and from a nomination list prepared by a 

 Council for that purpose, and publicly read at the meeting immediately 

 preceding that on which the balloting takes place. The Council for 

 nominating Foreign Members shall consist of the I^resident, Vice- 

 President, the Secretaries, Treasurer, Librarian, and the members of 

 the three Standing Committees ; and no candidate shall be balloted for 

 who is not recommended by the signatures of two thirds of the mem- 

 bers of this Council. 



" Chap. IX. Of Amendments of the Statutes. All proposed 

 alterations or additions to the Statutes shall be referred to a committee 

 during the interval between two statute meetings, and shall require for 

 enactment a majority of two thirds of the members present, and at 

 least eighteen affirmative votes." 



The Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, and Dr. William F. Chan- 

 ning, of Boston, were elected Fellows of the Academy. 



Three hundred and twenty-second meeting. 



October 2, 1849. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters of acceptance 

 from the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, and Professor Charles B. 

 Adams, in reply to his official notification of their election as 

 Fellows of the Academy. 



A circular from the Physical Section of the American Associ- 

 ation for the Advancement of Science, respecting the establish- 

 ment of an Astronomical Journal, was read ; whereupon it was 



" Resolved, That, in the opinion of this Academy, the establishment 

 of the proposed Journal, for the publication of original researches in 

 mathematics and astronomy, will tend materially to the advancement 



