PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN ACADEMY 



OF 



ARTS AND SCIENCES 



SELECTED FROM THE RECORDS. 



Two hundred and eighty-fourth meeting. 



May 26, 1846, — Annual Meeting. 



Dr. BiGELow, Vice-President, in the chair. 



The Treasurer made his Annual Report, which was refer- 

 red to Mr. F. C. Lowell, as a committee to audit and examine. 

 Mr. Lowell subsequently presented the audited Report, sub- 

 joined to the record. 



Chief-Justice Shaw, referring to the loss which the Fellows 

 of the Academy had recently sustained in the decease of their 

 late distinguished President, spoke at some length of the many 

 talents, accomplishments, and virtues of the late President, 

 and expressed a strong hope that some proper public expres- 

 sion of respect for his memory might proceed from the Acad- 

 emy. 



Mr. Everett followed with some eloquent and feeling re- 

 marks upon the character of the profound scholar, whose 

 varied excellences had made him so widely known and so 

 deeply regretted, and offered the following resolutions. 



" Whereas, it has pleased Almighty God to remove from this life 

 the Honorable John Pickering, late President of the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences, — 



" Resolved, That the Fellows of the Academy are deeply sensible 

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