THE 



CE:NrTE]^NIAL CELEBRATIOlSr 



OF 



THE ACADEMY. ^ZsZTl 





At a meeting of the American Academy held Oct. 8, 1879, a Centennial Committee 

 was appointed to deliberate on the best method of celebrating the hundredth anniver- 

 sary of the foundation of the Academy. The following committee was appointed : — 



RoBEKT C. WiNTHROP, Chairman. 



John A. Lowell. Asa Gray. ' 



Nathaniel Thayer. W. B. Rogers. 



B. E. CoTTiNG. H. H. Hunnewell. 



Erastus B. Bigelow. J. Ingersoll Bowditch. 



J. P. Cooke. Alexander Agassiz. 



Egbert Amory. Theodore Lyman, Secretary. 



The vacancy afterwards occasioned by the death of Mr. Bigelow was filled by 

 the appointment of Mr. Edward Atkinson. 



The Committee fixed on Wednesday, May 26, 1880, as the day for the celebration, 

 and decided that the exercises should be in two parts, a public meeting at the Old 

 South Church with an address by the President, Hon. C. F. Adams, and a reception at 

 the hall of the Academy. Formal invitations were issued to corresponding Societies, 

 to Foreign Honorary Members, and to other persons of distinction. 



On the day appointed, at noon, the Committee received the Fellows and guests at 

 tlie hall of the Academy in the Athenaeum building. The company counted about 

 three hundred gentlemen, of whom one hundred were Fellows. 



Seventeen foreign academies were represented by delegates : — 



Tlie Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, by J. McPherson Le Moine, and George 

 Stewart, Jr. 



