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At the 3rd Meeting of the �鶹��ýAV held on August 30, 1780, �鶹��ýAV members voted to appoint “a Committee to confer with the Reverend and Honorable Corporation of the University of Cambridge upon pursuing measures to procure an accurate observation of the Solar eclipse...”

Alexander Graham Bell visited the �鶹��ýAV and demonstrated his invention of the telephone before members twice during 1876 in May and October...

A protracted debate within the �鶹��ýAV over Darwin’s Origin of Species began with a paper on Japanese flora presented by Asa Gray in 1858, leading to an exchange between Louis Agassiz and William Barton Rogers...

In 1783, a self-described“ Bostonian Member of the American �鶹��ýAV… at the request of another Member,” detailed the efforts of Reverend Doctor Cotton Mather to combat smallpox through inoculation...