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adopted the laws presented to their discussion, divided into Classes and Sections 

 for the consideration of matters of science, elected officers, and adjourned to a 

 stated day, the 4th of January, and to Washington, the National Capital, with 

 which they were henceforth to be connected in their membership of the National 

 Academy of Sciences." ^* 



The organization for the year 1863 was as follows: 



President, Alexander Dallas Bache. 

 Vice-President, James Dwight Dana. 

 Foreign Secretary, Louis Agassiz. 

 Home Secretary, WoLCOTT Gibbs. 

 Treasurer, Fairman Rogers. 



Class of Mathematics and Physics 

 Chairman, Benjamin Peirce. 

 Secretary, Benjamin A. Gould. 



Class of Natural History 

 Chairman, Benjamin Silliman, Sr. 

 Secretary, J. S. Newberry. 



Council: Charles Henry Davis, John Torrey, Lewis M. Ruther- 

 FURD, J. Peter Lesley, and the officers and chairmen of classes 

 ex officio. 



In addition to considering the constitution and by-laws and 

 electing officers, the Academy at this first meeting appointed a 

 committee on the form of a diploma, on a corporate seal, and 

 on a stamp for books and other property, and also a committee 

 on the mode of electing foreign associates. The latter committee 

 did not report until January, 1864, and the former appears not 

 to have presented any formal report. 



°*Ann. Nat. Acad. Sci. for 1863-4 (1865), pp. 48, 49. 



