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Five hundred and sixty-second Meeting. 



February 13, 1866. — Monthly Meeting. 



The Vice-President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters relative to ex- 

 changes. 



Professor Washburn read a paper on the nature of the tes- 

 timony of experts in courts of law ; and he suggested that a 

 legislative remedy might be found for the abuses to which the 

 employment of expert witnesses by the parties in a suit fre- 

 quently leads. A discussion of the questions raised in this 

 paper then followed, in which the following gentlemen took 

 part : Dr. C. T. Jackson, Professor H. R. Storer, Professor 

 C. W. Eliot, Professor Parsons, and Dr. J. Bigelow. 



Five hundred and sixty-third Meeting. 



March 6, 1866. — Special Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President called the attention of the Academy to the 

 recent decease of the Right Rev. John B. Fitzpatrick, of the 

 Resident Fellows. 



Professor Washburn gave a recapitulation of his paper, read 

 at the previous meeting, on the testimony of experts. 



A discussion of this subject then followed, in which Pro- 

 fessor Parker, Judge Bigelow, Mr. G. B. Emerson, Professor 

 Bowen, Dr. Jarvis, Professor H. R. Storer, and Dr. Pickering 

 took part. 



On the motion of Professor H. R. Storer it was voted, That 

 a committee be appointed to consider and report upon the sub- 

 ject of this discussion. 



Pending the appointment of this committee the meeting 

 adjourned. 



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