318 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Ira Renisen, of Williamstown, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class L, Section 3. 



Hiram F. Mills, of Lawrence, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class I., Section 4. 



Robert Thaxter Edes, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class II., Section 4. 



Henry Adams, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in Class 

 in.. Section 3. 



Professor Cooke announced that the fourth and last vol- 

 ume of Count Rumford's Works had been issued from the 

 l^ress. 



Mr. R. C. Winthrop made the following Report : — 



It has seemed to me proper, Mr. President, that I should make 

 some brief report of what I did, and of what I left undone, under the 

 commission with which the Academy honored me, some months ago, 

 to represent them at the International Congress of Geography in 

 Paris. 



Agreeably to a suggestion which I ventured to make to the Secre- 

 tary, on receiving my own appointment, Mr. Ingersoll Bowditch, then 

 abroad, was afterwards associated with me in the delegation. But I 

 am sorry to say that neitlier of us found it practicable to be in Paris 

 during the week in which the sessions were held. For myself, I 

 reached there only on the evening of the day on which they were 

 formally closed. It was an occasion of public ceremonial, which 

 I was sincerely sorry to have missed. I regretted much less that I 

 was unable to attend the opening ceremonies, as they took place on 

 Sunday ; and, though I do not care to associate myself with too sancti- 

 monious a Sabbatarianism, I have always been offended, when abroad, 

 by the habitual selection of Sunday, jiarticularly in Paris, for spec- 

 tacles and shows of all sorts. Such a course seems almost like an 

 insult to Protestantism, and might well be the subject of remonstrance 

 where the occasion is not of a local character. 



I had reported myself, as a delegate from the Academy, previously 

 to my arrival, and my name had been duly entered on the roll of 

 the Congress. Nothing remained, however, for the members to do, 

 except to make a visit to the Sewers of Paris, — a geographical 

 exploration from which 1 was willing to excuse myself during the 

 heats of August, — and to pay their respects to the Prcfet of the Seine, 

 at a formal reception arranged for that purpose. 



