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Compensation for the Discovery and Gift to his Country and Man- 

 kind of the Application of Ethereal Vapor, as a safe and practical 

 Ana3sthesia, or Pain-subduing Agent. 8vo pamph. Washington. 

 1863. [Pub. Doc] 

 Chai'Ies S. Storrow. 



Report of the Commissioners upon the Troy and Greenfield Rail- 

 road and Hoosac Tunnel, Feb. 28, 18G3. 8vo vol. Boston. 1863. 

 Charles Folsom. 



An Essay on the Senses of Smell and Taste ; to which was award- 

 ed the Prize of the Boylston Medical Society in 1863. By Norton 

 Folsom. 8vo pamph. Boston. 1863. 

 St. Louis Mercantile Library Association. 



Seventeenth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Asso- 

 ciation. 8vo pamph. St. Louis. 1863. 

 Young Men^s Mercantile Library Association of Cincinnati. 



Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the Board of Directors. 8vo 

 pamph. Cincinnati. 1863. 

 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Federal Relations, to 

 whom was referred so much of the Governor's Address as relates to 

 the Military Defences of the State, the Petition of B. N. Bullock in 

 regard to an invention for iron armor for vessels, and the Order of 

 the Senate relative to taking measures for calling out the mechanical 

 and inventive talent of the Commonwealth. 8vo pamph. Boston. 

 1862. [Senate Doc. No. 177.] 



Five hundred and twenty-fourth Meeting, 



August 12, 1863. — Stated Meeting. 



The Vice-President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a letter from Messrs. Sil- 

 liman and Dana, presenting the American Journal of Science 

 and Arts to the Academy for tlie current year. 



Dr. Charles T. Jackson exhibited a mass of meteoric iron, 

 weighing nearly eleven pounds, which was sent to him by 

 Major John B. Hoffman, United States Agent to the Ponca 

 tribe of Indians. 



