314 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Dr. F. S. Holmes, of Charleston, South Carolma, in Class 

 II. Section 1. 



The following, nominated by the Council at the Annual 

 Meeting, were elected Foreign Honorary Members : — 



Professor Bekker, of Berlin, in Class III. Section 2. 



Professor Trendelenberg, of Berlin, in Class II. Section 1. 



Captain Duperrey, of Paris, in Class II. Section 1. 



Professor Peirce read a paper by Captain Anderson, of the 

 British Mail Steamer Canada, upon a general plan of educa- 

 tion for seamen, and their training in making scientific obser- 

 vations and collections. The advice and co-operation of the 

 Academy being requested, a committee on the subject was 

 appointed, consisting of Messrs. J. I. Bowditch, Felton, Agas- 

 siz, Rogers, Peirce, Levering, A. Gray, J. Wyman, and C. W. 

 Eliot. 



Professor Agassiz presented a paper, entitled. Contributions 

 to the Natural History of the Acalephs of North America. 



Professor Bowen read the second and concluding portion of 

 a paper On Specie Reserves and Bank Deposits. 



Professor Gray presented the following communications, 

 viz. : — 



1. Notes upon a Portion of Dr. Seemann's recent Collection 

 of Dried Plants gathered in the Feejee Islands. By 

 Asa Gray. 



Dr. Berthold Seemann, wlio, as the naturalist of a former expedi- 

 tion in the Pacific of the British surveying ship Herald, had acquired 

 a high reputation in scientific exploitation, has recently visited the 

 Feejee Islands, under a commission from the British government, to 

 examine the productive resources and capabilities of that interesting 

 group of islands. While attending to this duty he was able to gather 

 specimens of above eight hundred and fifty species of dried plants ; 

 and a list of them, with such determinations as he could hastily make, 

 was published by him, in the number for the 15th of September last 

 of the well-known botanical periodical, the Bonplandia, of which Dr. 

 Seemann is the editor. It being very desirable that this collection 

 should be critically compared with that made by the Pacific Exploring 



