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After the completion of the organization, each member present, a 
ably to the requirements of the organic law, took the oath of allegiance 
prescribed by the Senate of the United States for its own mem 
in addition thereto took an oath faithfully to discharge the duties of a 
member of the National Academy of Sciences to the best of his ability. 
orn in the midst ofsa great political revolution, the National ee 
of Sciences, created by the supreme law of the land, stands pledged t 
the powe er which has called it into being, and to the world to pt 
its : ah with fidelity. ‘The members of the Academy named in the Act 
had before them <i de to accept or to decline the trust reposed in th 
by no choice of theirs. So far as they have accepted their position, we 
a justified in aes it is willy a conviction that there were many no 
on the list who might most properly have been there, and with 
the ees that so far as any honor may attach to membership, it will 
be shared much more largely by those who shall hereafter be called by 
the suffrages of the Académy to - such vacancies as must occur, than 
by the corporators who are named it 
The National Academy a Scenoes does not take the place of, or neces- 
sarily interfere with, the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, as many persons seem to have supposed. 
IX. BOOK NOTICES. 
the task tinguahel i Mr. Sawyer, and with a degree of fulness , 
passing the original. The airs ig scientific value in this vo! 
Meteorology, Tide tables for Coast of U. S., Coast Survey, pr "Smith. 
sonian Institution, which are exelent, re the same caleeery, sl none be 
method so coanatias in Porth cote scientific results by curves. a: 
e aid of Profs, Bache and Henry of Washington, Profs. Co ay 380 and 
oe 
ach week since, on _ cea Coomos, i which “AbbG east has — 
drawn, for reasons of a 
Proprietor, which he fully se ap + forth § in a Prologue of 6 or 7 pages. 
ondes is an extremely aver? a of 28 pages, with a supple- 
ment on pure Scien It aims to notice the 
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progress of all science, pure and Seed, abet French or 
