2 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Professor Lovering read the report of the Committee on 

 Publication, detailing its operations during the past year. 



In behalf of the Council, Professor Gray, its secretary, read 

 the following report upon the changes whicli have occurred 

 in the personelle of the Academy since the preceding annual 

 meetmg : — 



Since the last annual meeting, the Academy has elected six Resident 

 Fellows, three Associate Fellows, and two Foreign Honorary Members. 



Three of the newly chosen Fellows belong to the First Class ; one 

 to the Second ; and two to the Third Class. 



Of the Associate Fellows, one was chosen into each Class. 



Of the Foreign Honorary Members, one, M. Liodville of Paris, 

 belongs to the First Class, Section 1 : the other. Professor Valentin, 

 to the Second Class, Section 3. 



These accessions exactly equal the number of vacancies which have 

 been caused by death during the past year. 



Within this period, five Resident Fellows have deceased ; viz. 

 Hon. Thomas G. Cary, Hon. Rufus Choate, Rev. Dr. Wil- 

 LARD, Mr. Benjamin A. Gould, Mr. William Wells, — all of 

 Class HI. 



We have lost three Associate Fellows; viz. Thomas Nuttall, 

 of the Second Class ; Horace Mann, and Washington Irving, of 

 the Third Class. 



Also, three Foreign Honorary Members ; viz. Robert Stephen- 

 son, of Class I. ; Karl Ritter, of Class II. ; and Frederick 

 William Thiersch, of Class III. 



The anniversary meeting offers a fitting occasion for some tribute, 

 however cursory, to the memory of the Associates whose death we 

 have to deplore. For important assistance in the preparation of these 

 obituary remarks, the Council offer their acknowledgments and thanks 

 to several Fellows, who kindly responded to their call, and of whose 

 help they would gladly have availed themselves more largely. But 

 our statements upon the present occasion must needs be brief and 

 general. 



Indeed, two of our late Associates, Choate and Irving, were men 

 whose mark and fame render all comment, which could be offered 

 here and now, superfluous. Prompt and fitting public eulogies have 

 already been elsewhere pronounced over the remains of the most elo- 



