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PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Seven hundred and fourteenth Meeting. 



October 9, 1878. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



James Barr Ames, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 1. 



John Chipman Gray, Jr., of Boston, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 1. 



E. D. Leavitt, Jr., of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class I., Section 4. 



John Phillips Reynolds, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class II., Section 4. 



Charles Sprague Sargent, of Brookline, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class II., Section 2. 



Thomas Carlyle, of London, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class III., Section 3, in place of the late Louis 

 Adolphe Thiers. 



H. A. J. Munro, of Cambridge, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class III., Section 2, in place of the late Count 

 Paul Federigo Sclopis di Salerano. 



John Ruskin, of Oxford, to be a Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 ber in Class III., Section 4. 



On the motion of Professor Cooke, it was 

 Voted, That, when this meeting adjourn, it adjourn to the 

 second Wednesday in November, in order to vote upon nom- 

 inations ; and that the next meeting be an adjourned stated 

 meeting. 



The chair appointed Messrs. Lovering, Cooke, and Picker- 

 ing to collect, sort, and count votes for a vacancy in the 

 Council. Professor James B. Thayer was elected to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the death of Judge Thomas. 

 The following papers were presented : — 

 " On the Limits of Accuracy in Measurements with the 

 Microscope." By William A. Rogers. 



" On a Standard Inch and a Standard Centimetre." By 

 William A. Rogers. 



