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The other Committees were appointed, on the nomination 

 of the President, as follows : — 



Committee on Publication. 



Alexander Agassiz. W. W. Goodwin. 



John Trowbridge. 



Committee on the Library. 



Charles Deane. William Watson. 



Henry P. Bowditch. 



Auditing Committee. 

 Henry G. Denny. Robert W. Hooper. 



Professor Benjamin Peirce moved that the thanks of the 

 Academy be presented to the retiring President for the very 

 eminent manner in which he had fulfilled the duties of that 

 important office. 



The Annual Report of the Council, parts of which had 

 been read at former meetings, was presented in full by Pro- 

 fessor Joseph Lovering, the retiring Corresponding Secretary. 



Since the last report of the Council the following additions, by elec- 

 tion, have been made to the membership of the Academy : — 



W. R. Nichols, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in Class L, 

 Section 3. 



C. L. Jackson, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in Class L, 

 Section 3. 



C. O. Boiitelle, of United States Coast Survey, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class L, Section 4. 



J. M. Merrick, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in Class I., 

 Section 3. 



N. St. J. Green, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in Class 

 III., Section 1. 



H. H. Hunnewell, of Wellesley, to be a Resident Fellow in Class 

 IL, Section 2. 



H. P. Bowditch, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in Class 11., 

 Section 4. 



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