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room for possible misunderstandings and legal difficulties, which would 

 be averted by a little foresight and promptness of action. 

 (Signed,) Wolcott Gibbs, \ 



Francis A. Walker, >- Committee. 



J. Rayner Edmands, ) 



Professor Henry P. Bowditch called the attention of the 

 Academy to the necessity of better Hbrary accommodations ; 

 and, on his motion, it was 



Voted, That a committee be appointed to consider this 

 subject. 



The chair appointed the following committee : — 



Messrs. Henry P. Bowditch, Josiah P. Cooke, and Henry 

 P. Kidder. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Oliver Clinton Wendell, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 2. 



Joseph Thatcher Clarke, of Boston, to be a Resident Fel- 

 low in Class IH., Section 2. 



The following papers were presented : — 



"Additional Observations confirmatory of the Relation: 

 Imperial yard -\- 3.37027 inches = Metre des Archives." By 

 William A. Rockers. 



" A Possible Explanation of the Discordant Values of the 

 Equinox determined by Pond between 1820 and 1833." By 

 William A. Rogers. 



" Observations on Variable Stars by Sir William Herschel." 

 By Edward C. Pickering. (By title.) 



Seven liundred and sixty-ninth Meeting. 



February 14, 1884. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a letter from the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh, inviting the Academy to send a delegate 

 to its Tercentenary Celebration during Easter week. 



