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On May 4, 1780, Massachusetts's legislative body the General Court of Massachusetts approved the �鶹��ý��վ's charter by passing an Act incorporating the �鶹��ý��վ...

William Henry Pickering, a Member of the �鶹��ý��վ and an instructor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photographed a total eclipse of the sun...

On September 19, 1919, the �鶹��ý��վ hosted a conference of ten scholarly associations that resulted in the establishment of the American Council of Learned Societies. The purpose of the conference was to decide how American organizations could most effectively participate...

Howard Mumford Jones was president of the �鶹��ý��վ from 1944 to 1951. He was instrumental in transforming the �鶹��ý��վ into a national organization dedicated to the interdisciplinary analysis of broad-scale intellectual issues.