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cies.' " The second and third parts of the work are upon 

 those portions of Scripture which bear upon the origin of man- 

 kind. 



Dr. A. A. Gould alluded to the alleged fossil human bones 

 from the upper part of Florida, and expressed the opinion of 

 himself, and others who had examined the localities, that they 

 had no claim to be considered as fossil bones. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a letter from the Geologi- 

 cal Society of London, acknowledging the reception of Vol. 

 V. Part. I. of the Academy's Memoirs. Also letters from the 

 Verein fiir Vaterlaendische Naturkunde, at Wlirtemberg, and 

 the Societe des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, requesting 

 an exchange of publications with the Academy ; the latter 

 Society had already sent one volume of its publications, in 

 octavo. 



Three liitndrecl and ninety-ninth meeting. 



April 25, 1854. — Semi-Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Letters were read from the Ethnological Society of London, 

 Rear-Admiral Smyth, and the Breslau Akademie der Natur- 

 forscher, acknowledging the reception of Vol. V. Part L of the 

 Academy's Memoirs ; letters from the K. K. Geologische 

 Reichsanstalt of Vienna, and the Academic Royale des Sci- 

 ences de Stockholm, acknowledging the reception, the former 

 of Vol. IV. Part. IL, and the latter of Vol. V. Part L of the 

 Academy's Memoirs, and transmitting also donations of their 

 publications in exchange ; and letters from the Royal Insti- 

 tution of London, the Akademie der Wissenschaften of Vienna 

 and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences of Copenhagen, 

 presenting their publications. 



Professor Horsford presented the following paper, offered to 

 the Academy at a former meeting, and since revised and modi- 

 fied, " On the Value of the different Kinds of Prepared Vecre- 

 table Food," by John Dean. 



