PEOCEEDINGS. 



Seven hundred and second Meeting. 



May 29, 1877. — Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented the Report of the 

 CoiinciL 



The Report of the Rumford Committee was read and 

 accepted. 



The President announced the death of Mr. Edmund 

 Quincy, in the following words : — 



" It has become my painful duty to ajinounce to the members of 

 the Academy the loss they have, since the last meeting, met with in 

 the person of Mr. Edmund Quincy, who has for several years served 

 us faithfully in the responsible positions of our Treasurer and Libra- 

 rian. On this occasion, it is not for me to enter at large into the 

 detail which contributes to form his character. That will be done 

 elsewhere in its proper place. Mr. Quincy had no fancy for display. 

 What work he did was done modestly but effectively. As a writer, 

 few men in America have excelled him in beauty, simplicity, and 

 accuracy ; and, as a man, I trust it may be allowed me to testify from 

 an experience now of more than sixty years that he has not left a 

 better or more honest man behind him." 



The annual election resulted in the choice of the followinof 

 officers : — 



Charles Francis Adams, President. 



Joseph Lovering, Vice-President. 



JosiAH P. Cooke, Jr., Corresponding Secretary. 



Henry P. Bowditch, Recording Secretary. ' 



Theodore Lyman, Treasurer. 



Samuel H. Scudder, Librarian. 



