1876.] 



349 



[Annual Meeting. 



SECRETARY, 

 EDWARD BURGESS. 



TREASURER, 



EDWARD PICKERING. 



LIBRARIAN, 



EDWARD BURGESS. 



COMMITTEES ON DEPARTMENTS. 



Minerals. 

 Thomas T. Bouve, 

 L. S. Burbank, 

 R. H. Richards. 



Geology. 

 L. S. Burbank, 

 T. Sterrt Hunt, 

 Wm. H. Niles. 



Palaeontology. 

 Thos. T. Bouve, 



N. S. Shaler, 

 Jules Marcou. 



Botany. 

 John Cummings, 

 Charles J. Sprague, 

 J. Amort Lowell. 



Microscopy. 

 Edwin Bicenell, 

 R. C. Greenleae, 

 B. Jot Jeeeries, M.D. 



Comparative Anatomy. 

 Thomas Dwight, Jr., M.D., 

 J. C. White, M.D. 



Radiates, Crustaceans and Worms. 

 H. A. Hagen, M.D., 

 Alexander Agassiz, 

 l. f. de pourtales. 



MollusJcs. 

 Edward S. Morse, 

 J. Henry Blake, 

 Levi L. Thaxter. 



Insects. 

 S. H. Scudder, 

 Edward Burgess, 

 A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D. 



Fishes and Reptiles. 

 F. W. Putnam, 

 S. Kneeland, M.D., 

 Richard Bliss, Jr. 



Birds. 

 Thomas M. Brewer, M.D., 

 Samuel Cabot, M.D., 

 J. A. Allen. 



Mammals. 

 J. A. Allen, 

 J. B. S. Jackson, M.D. 



The final consideration of the changes in the Constitution 

 and By-Laws, discussed during the previous meetings, re- 

 sulted in the adoption of the following amended articles :■ — 



CONSTITUTION. 



Art. ii. It shall consist of Associate, Corporate, Corresponding 

 and Honorary Members, and Patrons. 



Art. hi. All members shall be chosen by ballot, after having 

 been nominated at a preceding meeting; the affirmative votes of 

 three-fourths of the Corporate Members present shall be necessary to 

 a choice. The nomination of Corporate, Corresponding and Honor- 



