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loted for. Upon an informal ballot it appeared that Messrs. 

 DuTTON, Elliott, Harkness, Powell, Schott, Toner, and 

 Woodward had a majority, and on motion they were declared 

 elected. Upon a second ballot Mr. Garrick Mallery was 

 elected, and upon the sixth ballot Mr. W. H. Dall was elected. 

 It was then moved by Mr. Hilgard, and carried, that when 

 this meeting adjourns it adjourn for two weeks, and that the ad- 

 journed meeting be regarded as a continuation of the annual 

 meeting for the purpose of receiving the annual address of the 

 President of the Society. 



The Society then adjourned. 



169th Meeting. November 22, 1819. 



The President in the Chair, 



Fifty-two members present. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and adopted. 



The order of exercises for the evening, pursuant to the terms 

 of the adjournment of the preceding meeting, consisted in the 

 delivery of the annual Address of the President of the Society. 



Mr. Simon Newcomb, the newly elected President, arose and 

 stated to the Society that the pressure of other duties had pre- 

 vented him from preparing an address upon the subject originally 

 contemplated by him for this occasion. 



He regretted this inasmuch as it seemed to hira that the sub- 

 ject was better adapted to the spirit and purpose of an annual 

 address to a Philosophical Society than the one which he had 

 finally adopted. The paper chosen for the evening had been 

 originally prepared with another object in view, but seemed to 

 him not wholly unadapted to the occasion. 



The President then read for his address a paper entitled 



the future of the human race regarded from the stand- 

 point OF evolution, 



which was listened to with great interest and pleasure by the 

 Society. The paper was reserved by the President for revision. 



