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Nominations for election into the Academy were presented 

 from the Council. 



In accordance with the recommendation of the Finance 

 Committee, a special appropriation of five hundred dollars 

 was voted for the engraving of plates to complete the publi- 

 cation of Dr. Storer's Memoir on the Fishes of Massachusetts. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Dr. Gustavus Hay of Boston, to be Resident Fellow in 

 Class I. Section 1. 



Dr. Richard M. Hodges of Boston, to be Resident Fellow 

 in Class II. Section 4. 



Mr. Charles S. Peirce of Cambridge, to be Resident Fellow 

 in Class III. Section 1. 



Five hundred and seventy-eighth Meeting 1 . 



February 12, 1867. — Adjourned Statute Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented letters from Mr. 

 C. S. Peirce and Dr. R. M. Hodges in acknowledgment of 

 their election into the Academy. 



The Committee appointed at the Special Meeting, May 8, 

 1866, to consider and report on the accommodation of the 

 Academy, were discharged. 



Professor Lovering reported from the Rumford Committee 

 that the Medals voted to Mr. Alvan Clark were ready for 

 presentation to him. 



Five hundred and seventy-ninth Meeting. 



February 26, 1867. — Special Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President called the attention of the Academy to the 

 recent decease of Dr. Henry Bryant of the Resident Fellows, 

 and of Dr. Alexander Dallas Bache of the Associate Fellows. 



Professor Lovering reported from the Rumford Committee 



