RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 687 



One thousand and first Meeting. 



December 14, 1910. 



The Academy met at the University Club, to celebrate its one 

 thousandth Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



There were present seventy-five Resident Fellows, one Asso- 

 ciate Fellow and twenty-two guests. 



The dinner was typical of colonial times — being copied largely 

 from one given on Forefather's Day in Plymouth, 1769. The 

 menu, which is of historic interest, follows on page 688 : 



After the dinner the President, Professor John Trowbridge, 

 congratulated the members upon the large attendance which tes- 

 tified to the vitality of a body which, after 130 years, could show 

 such strength, and called upon the Recording Secretary to read 

 the record of the last meeting. Several members objected, and de- 

 sired the record of the first meeting. This was accordingly read, 

 as follows : 



May 30, 1780. By an Act of the Great and General Court of the 

 State of Massachusetts, passed y® 3*^ of May, 1780, a Society was in- 

 corporated and established by the name of American Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences. In the Act, the Philosophical chamber in the University 

 of Cambridge was determined to be the place where the Fellows of the 

 Academy should bold their first meeting and the Honorable James 

 Bowdoin Esq^ was authorised and impowered to fix the time for holding 

 the said meeting and to notify the same. He having done this by ad- 

 vertisement in the public newspapers the fellows of the said Academy 

 held their first meeting at the place aforesaid on the 30^'' of May, 1780. 



At the meeting the Act of Incorporation was first published. The 

 Rev*? President Langdon then prayed, after which the Fellows passed 

 the following votes : — 



1. That the Honorable James Bowdoin, Esq. be President until the 

 next meeting of the Academy. 



2. That M^ Caleb Gannett be Secretary until the next meeting of 

 the Academy. 



3. That Ebenezer Storer, Esq' be Treasurer until the next meeting 

 of the Academy. 



4. That the Honorable James Bowdoin, Esq"", Mr Caleb Gannett, the 

 Rev^ Samuel Langdon, D. P., the Honorable John Pickering Esq'., 



