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Seven hundred and fourth Meeting. 



October 10, 1877. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Dr. H. P. Bowditch presented his resignation of the office 

 of Recording Secretary. The resignation was accepted, and 

 Professor John Trowbridge was appointed to fill the vacancy. 



The President announced the death of M. LeYerrier of 

 Paris, Foreign Honorary Member, and of John H. Temple, 

 of West Roxbury, Resident Fellows. 



Mr. C. E. Norton presented, by title, a paper on the 

 Dimensions and Proportions of the Temple of Zeus at 

 Olympia. 



Mr. Scudder exhibited a fossil butterfly from the tertiary 

 formation of Colorado. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the Acad- 

 emy : — 



John Rodgers, of Washington, to be an Associate Fellow 

 in Class I., Section 4. 



Arthur Searle, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class I., Section 2. 



Charles R. Cross, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class I., Section 3. 



Amos E. Dolbear, of Somerville, to be a^ Resident Fellow 

 in Class L, Section 3. 



George Cheyne Shattuck, of Boston, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class II., Section 4. 



Francis Minot, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in Class 

 II., Section 4. 



Charles Smith Bradley, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 1. 



Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., of Boston, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section -1. 



John Lowell, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in Class 

 III., Section 1. 



James Bradley Thayer, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 1. • . 



