734 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



It was proposed by Professor W. M. Davis, that all meetings 

 of the Academy may be Stated or Business meetings, and that 

 nominations may be either read at a meeting or sent out in print 

 with the notice for the meeting. 



It was 



Voted, To refer Mr. Davis's proposition to the Committee on 

 the Revision of the Statutes. 



The annual election resulted in the choice of the following 

 officers and committees : 



John Trowbridge, President. 

 Elihtj Thomson, Vice-President for Class I. 

 Henry P. Walcott, Vice-President for Class II. 

 John C. Gray, Vice-President for Class III. 

 Edwin H. Hall, Corresponding Secretary. 

 William Watson, Recording Secretary. 

 Charles P. Bowditch, Treasurer. 

 A. Lawrence Rotch, Librarian. 



Councillors for Three Years. 



Harry W. Tyler, of Class I. 

 Thomas A. Jaggar, Jr., of Class II. 

 Arthur Fairbanks, of Class III. 



Finance Committee. 



John Trowbridge, 

 Eliot C. Clarke, 

 Francis Bartlett. 



Humford Committee. 

 Charles R. Cross, Arthur G. Webster, 



Edward C. Pickering, Elihu Thomson, 

 Erasmus D. Leavitt, Arthur A. Noyes. 

 Louis Bell. 



C. M. Warren Committee. 



Henry P. Talbot, William H. Walker, 



Gregory P. Baxter, Arthur A. Noyes, 

 Charles R. Sanger, George D. Moore, 

 James F. Norris. 



