182 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY ' 



Samuel B. F. Morse, Esq., of New York, and Professor 

 Wolcott Gibbs, of New York, were elected Fellows. 



From the list reported by the Council appointed for this 

 purpose, the following persons were chosen Foreign Hon- 

 orary Members, viz. : — 



Robert Brown, Esq., London. 



Prof. Elias Fries, Upsal, Sweden. 



Leopold von Buch, Berlin. 



Sir Henry de la Beche, London. 



Prof. Elie de Beaumont, Paris. 



Prof. P. A. Hansen, Seeberg, Denmark. 



Prof. Jens Christian Oersted, Copenhagen. 



Prof. Henry Rose, Berlin. 



Prof. Jean Baptiste Dumas,' Paris. 



Prof. Milne Edwards, Paris. 



Prof. Johann Miiller, Berlin. 



Prof. Christ. Gottfried Ehrenberg, Berlin. 



Prof. Karl Ritter, Berlin. 



Prof. Friedrich Tiedemann, Heidelberg. 



Prof. Theod. Ludwig Wilhelm BischofF, Giessen. 



Prof. Johann Friedrich Encke, Berlin. 



Prof. Karl Ernst von Baer, St. Petersburg!!. 



Prof. Theod. Schwamm, Louvain, Belgium. 



Robert Stephenson, Esq., London. 



M. Benoit Fourneyron, Paris. 



Prof. Macedonie Melloni, Pisa. 



M. Andral, Paris. 



Prof. P. C. A. Louis, Paris. 



Three hundred and twenty-fifth meeting. 



December 4, 1849. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The occasion was rendered peculiarly interesting from the 

 circumstance that the meeting was convened in the library 

 of Dr. Bowditch, formerly President of the Academy. The 



