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Six hundred and sixty-sixth Meeting. 



February 10, 1874. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The President in the Chair. 



Professor T. Steny Hunt made some remarks upon the 

 artificial production of stone. 



Mr. Scudder moved that the Council be authorized to 

 memorialize the Legislature on the subject of a new geologi- 

 cal survey of the State. On the motion of Professor A. 

 Gray, it was voted that this motion be laid upon the table, to 

 be taken up at the next meeting. 



Professor J. P. Cooke called the attention of the Academy 

 to a late corroboration of points in his investigation upon 

 micas. 



"Voted, to adjourn this meeting to the second Tuesday in 

 March. 



Six hundred and sixty-seventh Meeting. 



March 10, 1874. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at the house of the President, Honorable 

 Charles Francis Adams. 



The President in the chair. 



The President announced the deaths of Ira Perley and 

 John Bachman, Associate Fellows, also of Professor Quetelet, 

 of Brussels, Baron Louis and J. Victor Poncelet, of Paris, 

 Foreign Honorary Members. 



The President read a letter from Right Honorable W. E. 

 Gladstone, acknowledging his election as Foreign Honorary 

 Member of the Academy. 



The Corresponding Secretary stated to the Academy that 

 he had received a letter from Sir William Thomson, acknowl- 

 edging his election as Foreign Honorary Member. 



The Rumford Medals, awarded at the Annual Meeting to 

 Lewis M. Rutherfurd, of New York, were then delivered to 

 the President by the Chairman of the Rumford Committee, 

 with the following words : — 



