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and delegates at the Academy’s rooms at noon, and escorted 
there to have been pronounced by the distinguished President of 
the Academy, the Hon. Charles Francis Adams. But his strength 
h 
In his absence, and upon marvellously short notice, a most appro- 
priate and excellent address was pronounced by the accomplished 
chairman of the committee of arrangements, the Hon, Robert C. 
Winthrop, a lineal descendant of the first president, Governor 
Bowdoin, and whose associations with the Academy were there- 
fore little less intimate than those of Mr. Adams, whose father 
ore him 
poem, written for the occasion, was delivered by Dr. Oliver 
Wendell Holmes, and short addresses followed from a surviving 
Ex-president (Professor Gray), Prof. Wm. B. Rogers, and from 
the Very Rev. Dr. Howson, the Dean of Chester, who was present 
as a guest. 
The Fellows of the Academy then repaired to their hall, at the 
Atheneum, where a bountiful collation was spread. At its close 
short addresses were made by several delegates, by the President 
of Harvard University, and others. 
t the adjourned annual meeting, on the 9th of June, Mr. 
Adams having declined further service, Professor Joseph Lovering 
was elected President, and Professor Oliver Wendell Holmes, 
ice-President. Professors Cooke and Trowbridge were re-elected 
Secretaries. 
2. On the Recurrence of Solar Eclipses, with Tables of Eclipses, 
from B. C. 700 to A. D, 2300.—This is the ti 
natura this cycle into 223 equal parts, and the points of 
division are called by the author “ conjunction points.” All solar 
eclipses then naturally divided into classes and grouped 
together by the conjunction point at whi h ust occur, 
