102 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Five hundred and sixty-eighth Meeting. 



May 8, 1866. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters relative to ex- 

 changes ; also letters from the Reverend Barnas Sears, Pres- 

 ident of Brown University, and from Dr. Joseph Dalton 

 Hooker, Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in acknowl- 

 edgment of their election into the Academy. 



Professor Lovering reported, from the Committee of Publi- 

 cation, that Volume VI. of the Proceedings had been com- 

 pleted and was ready for distribution. 



On the motion of Professor Lovering it was voted, That the 

 sum of one hundred dollars bequeathed to the Academy by 

 the late Jonathan P. Hall, for the publication of its memoirs 

 and transactions, be appropriated to the publication of Mr. 

 Hall's meteorological observations. 



Dr. Bigelow reported, from the committee to consider the 

 purchase or lease of rooms for the use of the Academy, that 

 no further action had been had on the subject. 



On the motion of Mr. Bowditch the subject of this commit- 

 tee's previous report was indefinitely postponed, and the com- 

 mittee was discharged. 



The whole subject of the accommodation of the Academy 

 was then referred to a new committee, consisting of Dr. 

 Bigelow, the Treasurer, Mr. Bowditch, Professor Cooke, Pro- 

 fessor Eliot, and Mr. J. A. Lowell. 



Vive hundred and sixty-ninth Meeting. 



May 29, 1866. — Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Treasurer presented his report, which was accepted and 

 referred to the Auditing Committee. 



The Treasurer reported, from the committee to consider the 

 subject of a building for the accommodation of the Academy, 



