132 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Paris, in the Fourth Section of the First Class, to fill the vacancy caused 

 by the death of Wilhelm Struve of the Astronomical Section ; Arthur 

 Cayley of London, in the Mathematical Section of Class L, in the place 

 of the late Sir Wm. Rowan Hamilton ; M. Delauney of Paris, in place 

 of the late Sir John Lubbock of the same Class and Section ; and 

 Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker, of Kew, in place of his father, the late 

 Sir William Jackson Hooker, of the Secqnd Class and the Botanical 

 Section. 



Professor Lovering, as Chairman of the Committee of Pub- 

 lication, presented a report accounting for the expenditures in 

 printing under the appropriations of the past year. The re- 

 port was accepted. 



Professor Cooke presented the report of the Library Com- 

 mittee ; which was accepted. 



Mr. Paine reported that he had received from the represen- 

 tatives of the late Jonathan P. Hall the thermometer belonging 

 to the Academy, and the records of Mr. Hall's observations. 



Mr. Paine was authorized to obtain the barometer of the 

 Academy used by Mr. Hall, and to get it repaired. 



Remarks were made by the President and by the Librarian 

 on the aid rendered by the Smithsonian Institution in effecting 

 the exchanges of the Academy ; and on the motion of the Li- 

 brarian it was 



Voted, That the thanks of the Academy be presented to the 

 Smithsonian Institution for the generous and efficient aid 

 which it has rendered through its system of foreign exchanges 

 and distribution of publications, by which the Academy has 

 greatly profited. 



The President announced from the Finance Committee that 

 the unexpended balances of past appropriations were not in- 

 cluded in the appropriations recommended for the current 

 year. In accordance with information from Professor Eliot 

 concerning a sum of money raised by subscription for the 

 general expenses of the Academy, the recommendations of the 

 Finance Committee were amended, and the following appro- 

 priations passed : — 



