On motion of Mr. Tivy, the election of officers for the ensuing 

 year then took place, resulting as follows : 



President — Francis E. Nipher. 

 First Vice President — James M. Leete. 

 Second Vice President — Melvin L. Gray. 

 Corresponding Secretary — E. Evers. 

 Recording Secretary — Edmund A. Engler. 

 Treasurer — Enno Sander. 

 Librarian — Gustavus Hambach. 



Curators — Gustavus Hambach, W. H. Allderdice, Charles 

 Luedeking. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



January 19, 1885. 



The Academy met Monday evening, Jan. 19, at the Academy 

 rooms. Present - Messrs. Nipher, Sander, C. A. Todd, A. Todd, 

 Wheeler, Hunicke, Tivy, Leete, Potter, Evers, Pritchett, Gray^ 

 and Engler. 



On motion of Mr. Albert Todd, Prof. Pritchett and Dr. Todd 

 were appointed a committee to escort the newly elected Presi- 

 'dent. Prof. Nipher, to the chairman's seat. 



Prof. Pritchett, in introducing Prof. Nipher as the new Presi- 

 dent of the Academy, referred to the long and faithful services of 

 the President elect in the interests of the Academy, and expressed 

 his pleasure in thus bestowing upon Prof. Nipher a deserved 

 honor in the name of the Academy. 



Prof. Nipher, before taking his seat and after gracefully accept- 

 ing the position to which he had been elected, made some fitting 

 remarks as to the woi-k and future of the Academy. 



At the request of the Secretary, the reading of the minutes of 

 the last meeting was deferred to allow time to obtain copies, not 

 yet secured, of reports and addresses then made. 



Mr. Albert Todd called attention to- the fact that this was the 

 first meeting of the Academy since the death of Prof. Benjamin 

 Silliman, Jr., of Yale College, and, upon his motion, the chair 

 appointed Albert Todd, Wm. B. Potter, and H. A. Wheeler, a 



