PROCEEDINGS. 



Seven hundred and twelfth Meeting. 



May 28, 1878. — Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Reports of the Corresponding Secretary, of the Libra- 

 rian, and of the Treasurer were read. 



On the motion of Professor Cooke, it was 

 Voted, That, when the Academy adjourn, it adjourn to the 

 second Wednesday in June. 



Voted, That a committee of ways and means be appointed 

 to report, at the adjourned meeting, what appropriations can 

 be safely made for the ensuing year. 



The committee was constituted as follows : The Treasurer, 

 the Corresponding Secretary, the Librarian, Professor Lover- 

 ing, and Mr. Agassiz. 



The chairman of the Rumford Committee read his annual 

 report, and also presented the following vote : — 



" At a meeting of the Rumford Committee, held May 24, 

 it was 



" Voted, To recommend to the Academy the appropriation 

 of three hundred dollars ($300) to Professor Young, of 

 Princeton, in aid of his observations of the solar eclipse of 

 29th July, 1878." 



The annual election resulted in the choice of the following 

 officers : — 



Charles F. Adams, President 



Joseph Lovering, Vice-President. 



Josiah P. Cooke, Jr., Corresponding Secretary. 



John Trowbridge, Recording Secretary. 



Theodore Lyman, Treasurer. 



Samuel H. Scudder, Librarian. 



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