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A ballot was taken, and Captain THomas L. CASEY was 
chosen as nominee on the regular ticket. 
No other names having been presented for any of the offices, 
the Academy proceeded to the Annual Election; and Mzssrs. 
BASHFORD DEANE and HENRY DUDLEY were appointed 
tellers. Their report showed the election of the Council’s 
ticket unanimously, save a very few scattering votes; and the 
following officers were thereupon announced as chosen for the 
year: 
President, JOHN S. NEWBERRY. 
First Vice-President, OLIVER P. HUBBARD. 
Second Vice-President, Wm. P. TROWBRIDGE. 
Corresponding Secretary, ALEXIS A. JULIEN. 
Recording Secretary, H. CaRRINGTON Botton, 
Treasurer, HENRY DUDLEY. 
Librarian, NATHANIEL L. BRITTON. 
Councillors, J. A. ALLEN, P. H. Dupuey, A. R. LzEEps, 
D. S. Martin, J. J. STEVENSON, C. Van Brunt. 
Curators, FRANZ Boas, BAasHrorpD DEANE, THomas L. 
CasEy, GreorGE F. Kunz, JoHN J. Norrurop. 
Finance Committee, JouN H. Hinton, S. B. Browne .t, 
L. E. CHITTENDEN. 
THE PRESIDENT addressed the Academy, acknowledging the 
compliment of his re-election, referring to the highly favorable 
condition of the finances, and briefly reviewing the past history 
and growth of the Society. He dwelt upon the still-existing 
need of a permanent building for the Academy, and held this to 
be the object toward which all its growth and all the hopes and 
endeavors of its officers and membership should be directed. He 
referred to certain important plans for that end which were now 
under consideration, but not mature enough for public discus- 
sion at present. 
Mr. JAmes T. B. Ives, as announced, then exhibited a 
geological strata-map which he had constructed for the use of 
teachers of science. A series of differently colored sheets, cut 
to the shape of the outcrops of the several geological eras and 
ages in any given region, are hinged in such a way that, when 
