PROCEEDINGS. 



Seven hundred and eighty-third Meeting. 



May 26, 1885. — Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented the Report of the 

 Council. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



John Codman Ropes, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 8. 



Ezekiel Oilman Robinson, of Providence, to be an Asso- 

 ciate Fellow in Class III., Section 1. 



The annual election resulted in the choice of the following 

 officers : — 



Joseph Lovering, President 

 Oliver W. Holmes, Vice-President. 

 JosiAH P. Cooke, Corresponding Secretary. 

 William Watson, Recording Secretary. 

 Henry P. Kidder, Treasurer. 

 Nathaniel D. C. Hodges, Librarian. 



Council. 



Amos E. Dolbear, \ 



Robert H. Richards, > of Class I. 



WOLCOTT GiBBS, ) 



