OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



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Three Hiindred and slxty-nintli meeting. 



October 12, 1852. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President, in behalf of the committee appointed to 

 provide for the delivery of the Academy's course of lectures, 

 reported that the requisite arrangements had been completed. 

 The course was given as follows, commencing on Wednesday 

 evening, October 27th, at half past seven o'clock, and continued 

 on successive Wednesday evenings : — 



By Jacob Bigelow, M. D., President, Introductory Lecture. 



By Professor L. Agassiz, Genealogy of the Animal Kingdom. 



By Professor C. C Felton, Relation of Aristophanes to his 

 Times. 



By George Ticknor, Esq., The Tartuffe of Moliere. 



By Dr. B. A. Gould, Jr., The Theory of Probability. 



By Daniel Tread well, Esq., The Progress of the Useful Arts, 

 and their Relation to Scientific Discovery. 



By President Edward Hitchcock, The Bird Traces of Con- 

 necticut River. 



By Lieutenant Charles H. Davis, Astronomica] Prediction. 



By Professor C. C. Felton, Aristophanes, Second Lecture. 



By Professor Albert Hopkins, Time. 



By Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D., The Relations of Poetry 

 and Science. 



By George B. Emerson, Esq., A Higher Course of Instruc- 

 tion in Science in Reference to Preparation for exercising the 

 Useful Arts. 



By Hon. Samuel A. Eliot, A Complete System of Public 

 Education. 



Mr. Horsford exhibited to the Academy specimens of his 

 newly invented safety-lamp and safety-can, and described the 

 precautions which had been taken to guard against accidents. 



Dr. W. I. Burnett read a paper upon Cartilaginous and Os- 

 seous Tissues. 



" The cartilaginous tissue, wherever found, is invariably the same. 



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