PllOCEEDINGS. 



Seven hundred and twenty- second Meeting. 



May 27, 1879. — Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



In the absence of the Recording Secretary, Mr. Scudder 

 was appointed Secretary. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from the Micro- 

 scopical Society of London, offering to the President of the 

 Academy an election as Fellow of the Society ; the Honorary 

 Secretary of the Dominion of Canada, soliciting donations to 

 the Public Library of Saint-John, New Brunswick, which 

 had been destroyed by fire ; and the Director of the Ecole 

 Polytechnique, offering an exchange of publications. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the Report of the 

 Council for the past year. 



Mr. Lyman presented the annual report of the Treasurer 

 and of the Auditing Committee. 



Professor Lovering, on behalf of the Rumford Committee, 

 proposed the following vote, which was passed : — 



Voted, That the sum of three hundred and seventeen dol- 

 lars and -j 7 ^ ($317.75) in the printer's bill for the past year 

 be charged to the Rumford Fund. 



Professor Cooke, on behalf of the Publishing Committee, 

 stated that only about seven hundred and fifty dollars out of 

 the one thousand dollars appropriated from the Academy's 

 funds for printing had been expended during the past year ; 

 and, on his motion, it was 



