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The Report of the Council was received, which made the fol- 

 lowing recommendations : 



I. That the pending amendment to the By-Laws, increasing 

 the fees and dues to ten dollars be adopted ; and that all the 

 Publications of the Academy be distributed free to all the Resi- 

 dent Members and Fellows. 



II. That the Academy authorize the Council and the Publi- 

 cation Committee to change the Annals from a regular or yearly 

 publication with a fixed subscription price, to an irregular or 

 occasional publication, at special prices to persons not members; 

 and to keep the " Transactions " the regular periodical, with a 

 subscription price. 



Pending the adoption of these recommendations, the Secre- 

 tary made a verbal report in behalf of the committee which was 

 appointed at the meeting of December 6th, 1886, to send a circu- 

 lar to all the Resident Members asking for their individual 

 opinions upon the question of increasing the fees and dues to 

 ten dollars, which report was to this effect: Sixty replies had 

 been received, of which number forty-five were decidedly in 

 favor of the increase, and six expressed a willingness to make the 

 increase. Nine replies were negative, or gave adverse opinions. 

 The Secretary also stated that these replies had been laid before 

 the Council in the making of the recommendations. 



After some discussion, the recommendations were adopted 

 unanimously. 



Dr. N. L. Britton" read the following 



NOTE ON THE GROWTH OF A VINEGAR PLANT IN FERMENTED 



GRAPE JUICE. 



My attention was recently directed to certain remarkable 

 growths effected by the Vinegar Plant under circumstances evi- 

 dently peculiarly adapted to its development. In September, 

 1884, about a gallon of grape juice was obtained and allowed to 

 undergo a certain amount of fermentation. It was bottled dur- 

 ing the ensuing winter and the bottles placed on the upper shelf 

 of a closet, where I found them on July 25th, 1886; they had 

 been then standing undisturbed for about eighteen months. 



