PROCEEDINGS. 



Six hundred and fifty-eighth. Meeting. 



May 27, 1873. — Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Mr. Denny presented the report of the Treasurer, which 

 was recommitted to be acted upon at the next meeting. 



The Chairman of the Rumford Committee presented his 

 report, which was accepted. 



In accordance with this report, it was voted unanimously to 

 award the Rumford Medal to Mr. Lewis M. Rutherfurd, of 

 New York, for his improvements in the processes and methods 

 of astronomical photography. 



It was voted to defer action on the appropriations until the 

 adjourned meeting. 



It was voted to adopt the change in Chapter IX., Section 2, 

 of the Statutes of the Academy, as proposed at the meeting 

 of March 11. 



The verbal changes required by this vote in the latter part 

 of the section were referred to a committee consisting of 

 Messrs. Joseph Lovering, C. W. Eliot, and A. P. Peabody. 



The following gentlemen were then elected members of the 

 Academy: — 



R. J. E. Clausius, of Zurich, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class I., Section 4. 



J. J. Sylvester, of Woolwich, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class I., Section 1. 



C. F. Naumann, of Leij)zig, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class II., Section 1. 



