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the unexpended balance for last year be appropriated to 

 complete the binding of books now in the hands of the 

 binder. 



The Treasurer, the Corresponding Secretary, and the Libra- 

 rian were appointed a committee on appropriations for the 

 coming year. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



John Rayner Edmands, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fel- 

 low in Class I., Section 2. 



Henry Purkitt Kidder, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 3. 



Marcelin Pierre Eugene Berthelot, of Paris, to be a Foreign 

 Honorary Member in Class I., Section 3, in place of the late 

 James Clerk Maxwell. 



Seven hundred and thirty- third Meeting. 



June 9, 1880. — Adjourned Annual Meeting. 



The Vice-President in the chair. 



The death was announced of Dr. C. A. F. Peters, Director 

 of the Kiel Observatory. 



A letter was read from the Honorable Charles Francis 

 Adams, announcing his resignation of the office of President 

 of the Academy. 



The following votes were proposed by Professor Asa Gray 

 and unanimously adopted : — 



Voted, That the Academy receives with much regret the 

 announcement from the Honorable Charles Francis Adams 

 that the state of his health obliges him to decline further ser- 

 vice as President of this society. 



Voted, That the Fellows of the Academy deeply regret 

 that their distinguished President found himself unable to 

 be present at the Centennial Celebration on the 26th ult., tc 

 deliver the historical discourse which he had prepared in com 

 pliance with the Academy's invitation ; and they respectfull} 



