464 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
required by the Government of the United States or its es, to 
members specially conversant with the subject; and, with the Council, to 
direct the general business of the Academy. The duties of the othe 
The 
judgment of the Academy is to be at all times at the disposition of the 
Government upon any matter of Science or Art within the limits of the 
subjects embraced by it. The President of the Academy is competent, 
in special cases, to call in the aid, upon committees, of experts, or men of 
remarkable attainments not members of the Academy. cae 
The Annual Report to be presented to both Houses of Congress, is to 
be prepared by the President of the Academy, and before its presentation 
is to be submitted, first to the Council, and then to the Academy at the 
January meeting. The abstract of a memoir may however be sent by 
any member to the Home Secretary, to be printed and circulated among 
the members during the recess of the Academy. 
These are the most important features of the organic law of the 
National Academy of Sciences. An election was held under the rules 
when the following officers were chosen almost unanimously : 
President, ALexanner Dattas Bacug, Washington, D.C. 
Vice-President, James D. Dana, New Haven, Conn. 
ign Secretary, Lovis AGassiz, Cambridge, Mass. 
Home Secretary, Wo.cort Gis, 
Treasurer, Farm 
ernment, and also to the Academy at the next stated meeting. 
New York. 
Treasu an Rocers, Philadelphia. 
we OFFICERS OF THE CLASSES. 
Re Class A. Mathematics and Physics. : 
> Cambridge, Mass. 
ecretar: Cambridge, “ 
New Haven, Ct. ye 
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