PROCEEDINGS. 



Eight hundred and tiventy-thlrd Meeting. 



May 28, 1889. — Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Professor Henry W. Haynes was appointed Recording 

 Secretary pro tempore. 



Letters were received from Henry Willey, accepting Fel- 

 lowship ; from the Marquis de Caligny and Professor Mende- 

 leeff, acknowledging election as Foreign Honorary Members ; 

 from Professor David G. Lyon, resigning Fellowship ; from 

 Madame Bonders, announcing the death of her husband, 

 Franz Cornells Bonders, Foreign Honorary Member of the 

 Academy ; from Professor d'Achiardi, Secretary, announcing 

 the death of Giuseppe Meneghini, President of the Tuscan 

 Society of Natural Science ; from the Royal Academy of 

 Science of Turin, announcing the death of its President, 

 Angelo Genocchi ; from the Recording Secretary of the 

 American Oriental Society, thanking the Academy for the 

 use of its hall ; and from the Botanical Society of France, 

 inviting members of the Academy to take part in organizing 

 a Botanical Congress at Paris in August, 1889. 



The annual report of the Council was presented by the 

 Corresponding Secretary. 



The Treasurer and the Librarian presented their annual 

 reports. 



The following report was read : — 



The Rumford Committee present the following report for 

 the year ending with this Annual Meeting : — 



