OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 371 



Pour hundred and tliirty-seventli meeting. 



March 10th, 1857. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at the house of John A. Lowell. Esq. 

 The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from the Hon. 

 George S. Boutwell, accepting his election as a Fellow ; from 

 the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, the Royal So- 

 ciety of Sciences at Gottingen, the Society of Antiquaries, 

 London, the Geological Society of London, the British Asso- 

 ciation, and the Librarian of the British Museum, acknowledg- 

 ing the receipt of the Academy's publications ; and from 

 the Imperial Academy of Naturalists, Breslau, and the Royal 

 Academy of Stockholm, presenting their various publications ; 

 and from the Society of Sciences of the Netherland East 

 Indies, concerning interchange of publications. 



Professor C. C. Felton read the following paper, entitled, 



" Menander in New York. 



" Last winter, on my way to Washington, being detained in New 

 York by the heavy snows which blocked up the railways, I took the 

 occasion of visiting for the first time Dr. Abbott's collection of Egyp- 

 tian Antiquities. I was surprised and delighted with the extent and 

 value of the collection. Dr. Abbott, residing for many years as a 

 physician in Egypt, had excellent opportunities for securing the most 

 rare and precious antiques, from the natives who discovered them ; 

 and he has used his opportunities to good purpose. Contenting my- 

 self with a general survey of these treasures, and reserving a more 

 particular examination until my return, I intended to spend some time 

 in the city for this purpose alone. 



" In about a fortnight I returned ; but, having lodged at the National 

 Hotel at the time it was visited by the mysterious disease which has 

 sent several to their graves, and caused many to linger for months in a 

 state of great suffering and danger, I was myself too ill to accomplish 

 all I hoped and proposed. 



" The catalogue of this Museum contains considerably over a thou- 

 sand articles. Among the most curious are several mummies of the 



