OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 3 



Henry J. Bigelow, M. D., of Boston, was chosen a Fellow 

 of the Academy. 



At the annual election, the following gentlemen were cho- 

 sen officers for the ensuing year, namely : — 



Jacob Bigelow, M. D., . . President. 

 Hon. Edward Everett, . Vice-President. 



Prof. Asa Gray, Corresponding Secretary. 



Oliver W. Holmes, M. D., Recording Secretary. 



J. Ingersoll Bowditch, . Treasurer. 



A. A. Gould, M. D., ... Librarian and Cabinet- Keeper. 



It having been voted that the several committees hereto- 

 fore elected by ballot be named by the chair, the following 

 gentlemen were accordingly appointed the members of the 

 several standing committees. 



Rumford CoTn/mittee. 

 Daniel Treadwell, Benjamin Peirce, 

 John Ware, James Hayward, 



F. C. Lowell. 



Committee of Publicdtions. 

 Amos Binney, Francis Bowen, Asa Gray. 



Committee on the Library. 

 A. A. Gould, D. H. Storer, Benjajiin Peirce. 



The following donations to the library have been received 

 since the 1st of January, 1846. 



Lieutenant Gillis, U. S. N. Magnetical Observations made at the 

 Naval Observatory, Washington. 8vo. 1845. (Congressional Docu- 

 ment.) From Honorable R. C. Winthrop. 



Alexander H. Everett. Miscellaneous Writings. 8vo, Boston, 

 1845. From the Author. 



W. S. SulUvant. Musci Alleghanienses, sive Enumeratio Muscorum 

 atque Hepaticarum quos in itinere a Maryland ia usque ad Georgian! 

 per tractus Montium. Decerpserunt Asa Gray ct W. S. SulUvant. 

 8vo. Columbus, 1846. From the Author. 



Report on Scientific Nomenclature made to the Association of Amer- 



