384 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



The annual election resulted in the choice of the following 

 officers : — 



Joseph Lovering, President. 

 Oliver W. Holmes, Vice-President. 

 JosiAH P. Cooke, Corresponding Secretary. 

 John Trowbridge, Recording Secretary, 

 Theodore Lyman, Treasurer. 

 Samuel H. Scudder, Librarian. 



Council. 



Wolcott Gibbs,- \ 



Edward C. Pickering, > of Class I. 



Charles W. Eliot, ) 



Henry W. Williams, ^ 



George L. Goodale, > of Class II. 



Henry P. Bowditch, ) 



Francis J: Child, \ 



Charles G. Loring, \ of Class III. 



Edward Atkinson, ) 



Rumford Committee. 



George B. Clark. Joseph Lovering, 



JosiAH P. Cooke, John M. Ordway, 



Wolcott Gibbs, Edward C. Pickering, 



John Trowbridge. 



Member of Committee of Finance. 

 Thomas T. Bouvie. 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary it was 

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

 second Wednesday in June next. 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



" The Spectrum of Arsenic." By O. M. W. Huntington. 



