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nation, or otherwise; to provide for the election of foreign and domestic members, 
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the division into classes, and all other matters needful or usual in such institution, 
and nid report the same to Congress. 
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Agreeably to an invitation from Mr. Wilson, a majority of the cor- 
porators named in this Act met on the 22d of April, at 11 a.m. in the 
Chapel of the University of the city of New York, for the purpose of 
organizing the National Academy of Sciences. The body was called 
0 order, with a few appropriate remarks, by Mr. Wilson, who was pres- 
ent by the request of a lar mber of members temporary or- 
ganization was secured by the choice of Joseph Henry of Washington 
and Alexis Caswell of Brown University as Chairman and tary, 
_ The corporate members elect under which of these two classes and 
in which section of that class they will inscribe their names. The 
classes are subdivided thus :— , oh cs 
A. Class of Mathematics and Physics—Seottons: 1, Mathematics; 
. Scores 3, Astronomy, Geography, and Geodesy; 4, Mechanics; 
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B. Class of Natural History.—Sections 3 i Mineralogy and Geology; 
at each January meeting. 
of the classes, together with four memb t 
Academy, constitute a Couacil for the transaction of such business as is 
assigned to them by law or by the Academy. 
* As these Rules are subject to change prior to their _ gt we in — 
there is an obvious impropriety in publishing them in detail, at pi ut § 
much of their provisi Far concn ti L or nization of the Academy, and 
as are not likely to be materially altered, we give in this notice.— : 
