348 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



£iglit hundred and seventy-ninth Meeting. 



Januaiy 8, 1896. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from A. Cornu 

 and J. H. van't Hoff, acknowledging their election as Foreign 

 Honorary Members ; and one from B. K. Emerson, accepting 

 Fellowship. 



The vacancies in the Council occasioned by the death of 

 Henry W. Williams and the resignation of Thomas W. 

 Higginson were filled by the election of 



William M. Davis, of Class H., 

 Horace E. Scudder, of Class HI. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy: — 



Augustus St. Gaudens, of New York, to be an Associate 

 Fellow in Class HI., Section 4 (Literature and the Fine Arts), 

 in place of the late William Wetmore Story. 



Hermann Graf zu Solms-Laubach, of Strasbnrg, to be a 

 Foreign Honorary Member in Class II., Section 2 (Botany), 

 in place of the late Marquis de Saporta. 



Carl Gegenbaur, of Heidelberg, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class II., Section 3 (Zoology and Physiology), in 

 place of the late Thomas Henry Huxley. 



Willy Kiihne, of Heidelberg, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class II., Section 4 (Medicine and Surgery), in 

 place of the late Charles Edouard Brown-Sdquard. 



The President alluded to the fact that the Massachusetts 

 Historical Society had informally signified to the Academy 

 its willingness to make a ten years' lease of quarters in its 

 proposed building on the Back Bay. After a brief discussion, 

 it was 



Voted, That the question of securing new quarters for the 

 Academy be referred to the Committee of Finance, to report 

 at the next meeting. 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary, it was 



Voted, To meet, on adjournment, on the second Wednes- 

 day in February. 



