June 17, 1878. 



A. Todd in the chair. Twenty-five members present. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced the death of Joseph 

 Henry, LL.D., Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, at Wash- 

 ington, on the 13th of May, 1S78, a Corresponding Member of 

 this Academy since its first foundation in 1856. 



Prof. Henry was born at Albany, N. Y., on the 17th December, 1797. 

 His eminent services to science are too well known to need enumeration 

 here, and will be better learned in detail from other sources. We may 

 remember among ourselves the active and friendly interest he always took 

 in promoting the objects of this society and aiding us in building up a 

 museum and library, chiefly through exchanges of specimens and publica- 

 tions. We have been largely indebted, from the very beginning of the 

 Academy, not merely to the agency of the institution over which he pre- 

 sided with so much learning and ability, but to his personal attention to 

 our interests and prosperity, upon every suitable occasion. 



The following resolution was unanimously adopted and ordered 

 to be entered upon the minutes of proceedings : 



Resolved, That the Academy of Science has learned with profound re- 

 gret of the decease of Professor Joseph Henry, LL.D., late Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, and that we take this occasion to record our 

 high appreciation of his valuable discoveries and various contributions to 

 scientific knowledge, his eminent character as a man, and his special ser- 

 vices to this Academy. 



Samuel D. Winter was elected to associate membership. 



August 5, 1878. 



This was a special meeting for the purpose of making arrange- 

 ments for the meeting of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. 



October 7, 1878. 



G. Engelmann, President, in the chair. Seventeen members 

 present. 



