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Council. 



J. I. BOWDITCH, ^ 



Joseph Lovering, > of Class I. 



e. n. horsford, ) 



Louis Agassiz, ^ 



Jeffries Wyman, > of Class II. 



J. B. S. Jackson, ) 



James Walker, ^ 



Henry W. Torrey, > of Class III. 



Robert C. Winthrop, ) 



The Standing Committees, nominated by the President, 

 were elected as follows : — 



Rumford Com,mittee. 



Eben N. Horsford, Joseph Lovering, 



Daniel Tread well, Henry L. Eustis, 



Morrill Wyman. 



Committee of Publication. 



Joseph Lovering, Jeffries Wyman, 



Cornelius C. Felton. 



Committee on the Library. 



A. A. Gould, W. B. Eogers, 



George P. Bond. 



Committee to Audit the Treasurer's Accounts. 

 Thomas T. Bouve, C. E. Ware. 



Committee of Finance. 



Jacob Bigelow, ") ^ • \ x ^ j. 



' > ex officio, by statute. 



Edward Wigglesworth, ) 



J. I. Bowditch, by appointment. 



Professor C. W. Eliot presented a memoir by F. H. Storer 

 and himself on the Impurities of Commercial Zinc, with special 

 reference to the residue insoluble in dilute acids, to Sulphur, 

 and to Arsenic. 



