PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN ACADEMY 



or 



ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



SELECTED FROM THE RECORDS. 



VOL. V. 



Four bnndred and eigbty-fourtb. meeting. 



May 29, 1860. — Annual Meeting. 



The Peesident in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters acknowledging the 

 reception of the Academy's publications ; also from the Ento- 

 mological Society of Stettin, and the Royal University of 

 Christiana, Norway, accompanying donations to the library. 

 Also, a letter from Theodore Lyman, Esq., Fellow of the 

 Academy, presenting a copy of the Histoire et Memoires de 

 V Academie des Inscriptions, Vols. 1 to 50, inclusive, and 

 Index, and fourteen volumes of the MSmoires de V Institute 

 complete to the year 1818. 



The thanks of the Academy were voted to Mr. Lyman for 

 his valuable donation. 



The Treasurer presented his annual report upon the finances 

 of the Academy ; which was ordered to be entered in full iipon 

 the record-book. 



Professor Rogers reported, from the Committee on the Li- 

 brary, that 236 volumes and 416 parts of volumes have been 

 added to the library by gift during the past year, and 213 

 volumes and 268 pamphlets by purchase. Also, that 723 vol- 

 umes have been borrowed from the library during the year. 



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