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OF THE

AMERICAN ACADEMY

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ARTS AND SCIENCES.

VOL. V.

FROM MAY, 1860, TO MAY, 1862.

SELECTED FROM THE RECORDS.

BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE:
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1862.

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

AMERICAN ACADEMY

OF

ARTS AND SCIENCES.

SELECTED FROM THE RECORDS.

VOL. V.

Four hundred and eighty-fourth meeting.

May 29, 1860.-ANNUAL MEETING.

The PRESIDENT in the chair.

The Corresponding Secretary read letters acknowledging the reception of the Academy's publications; also from the Entomological Society of Stettin, and the Royal University of Christiana, Norway, accompanying donations to the library. Also, a letter from Theodore Lyman, Esq., Fellow of the Academy, presenting a copy of the Histoire et Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions, Vols. 1 to 50, inclusive, and Index, and fourteen volumes of the Mémoires de l'Institût, complete to the year 1818.

The thanks of the Academy were voted to Mr. Lyman for his valuable donation.

The Treasurer presented his annual report upon the finances of the Academy; which was ordered to be entered in full upon the record-book.

Professor Rogers reported, from the Committee on the Library, that 236 volumes and 416 parts of volumes have been added to the library by gift during the past year, and 213 volumes and 268 pamphlets by purchase. Also, that 723 vol

umes have been borrowed from the library during the year.