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Tliree hundred and fifty-eighth meeting. 



February 24, 1852. — Special Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



J. I. Bowditchj Esq., in the absence of the chairman of 

 the committee appointed to confer with the Trustees of the 

 Boston Athenaeum, on the subject of obtaining a room for the 

 use of the Academy in the Athenasum, made a report. After 

 much discussion, it was voted, 



1. That the report of the committee be accepted. 



2. That the contract entered into by the committee, in behalf of 

 the Academy, for the use of the northeast room on the lower floor of 

 the Athenseum, for the period of ten years, on the terms specified in 

 the committee's report, be ratified. 



3. That the same committee be empowered to complete the ar- 

 rangement with the Trustees of the Athenaeum. 



4. That the same committee be empowered to effect the removal 

 of the books belonging to the Academy, and to dispose of the book- 

 cases in such manner as they may see fit. 



Three hundred and fifty-ninth meeting. 



March 2, 1852. —Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Mr. Winthrop, in behalf of the committee on the subject of 

 Professor Eustis's plan of the late tornado, submitted the fol- 

 lowing report : — 



" The committee of the Academy, to whom was referred a plan 

 exhibiting the ravages of the tornado of August, 1851, by Professor 

 H. L. Eustis, beg leave to report, — 



" That they have examined this map with great interest, and are 

 unanimously of the opinion, that it forms a very valuable contribution 

 to the cause of meteorological science. 



" In meteorology, as in every other science, much more depends on 

 the fidelity and accuracy of observations and experiments, than on the 

 multiplicity of them. A single tornado, carefully and thoroughly sur- 

 veyed, is worth a hundred of which the track has only been galloped 

 over by the observer. 



