164 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Two hundred and ninety-seventh Meeting. 



August 11, 1847. — Quarterly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. • 



The Corresponding Secretary laid on the table an engraved 

 portrait of the late Professor De Candolle, a Foreign Honor- 

 ary Member of the Academy, presented by his son, Prof Al- 

 phonse De Candolle, of Geneva. On motion of the Vice-Pres- 

 ident, it was gratefully accepted, and ordered to be placed in a 

 frame. 



The following gentlemen were elected Foreign Honorary 

 Members of the Academy, viz. : — 



The Rev. Dr. Whewell, Master of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge. 



M. U. J. Leverrier, of Paris. 



John C. Adams, Esq., Fellow and Tutor of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge University. 



The following gentlemen were chosen Fellows of the 

 Academy, viz. : — 



Hon. Samuel A. Eliot, of Boston. 



Benjamin A. Gould, jr., of Boston. 



George P. Bond, Assistant at the Observatory, Cambridge. 



Mr. Everett stated, that, as President of the University, he 

 felt it his duty, on behalf of the Corporation, to embrace the 

 earliest opportunity of formally acquainting the Academy that 

 the great telescope ordered for the Observatory at Cambridge 

 had arrived in good order in all parts, and had been success- 

 fully mounted. The object-glass was received in November 

 last, and the other portions a short time since. The delicate 

 and somewhat difficult task of mounting and adjusting this 

 very large instrument had been performed with great expedi- 

 tion and skill by Mr. Bond and his son, the Director and 

 Assistant Observer. Mr. Everett felt bound to make this 

 statement to the Academy, and to accompany it with the re- 

 newed acknowledgments of the Corporation for the very lib- 

 eral subscription of the Academy to the fund for purchasing 

 the telescope. This subscription, amounting to three thou- 



