388 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Theodore Lyman, Chairman. 

 Henry P. Bowditch, Edward C. Pickering, 



WOLCOTT GiBBS, JOHN TrOWBRIDGE, 



Hiram F. Mills, Charles H. Wing. 



Seven hundred and fortf-fifth Meeting. 



October 12, 1881. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Letters in acknowledgment of election were received from 

 Messrs. F. Blake, Billings, Brown-Sdquard, Da Costa, Force, 

 Stills, Stubbs, and Sumner. 



Mr. Lyman presented an informal Report from the Com- 

 mittee on the " Grand Medal " of the Massachusetts Charita- 

 ble Mechanic Association, which, in substance, was that the 

 Committee had found certain exhibits which seemed to war- 

 rant the conferring of such a medal. 



On the motion of Mr. Scudder it was 



Voted, That the Report of the Committee be accepted, and 

 that the Academy undertake the responsibility which the 

 Charitable Mechanic Association desires to impose upon it ; 

 also, 



Voted, That the Committee on the " Grand Medal " con- 

 tinue their work, and present their final Report at the next 

 meeting of the Academy. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Clarence John Blake, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class I., Section 3. 



Thomas Gaffield, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class I., Section 3. 



Frederic Walker Lincoln, of Boston, to be a Resident Fel- 

 low in Class I., Section 4. 



William Otis Crosby, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class IL, Section 1. 



