loss which the commercial and agricultural industries of the State would 

 suffer thereby, the same to be signed, when drawn, by the President and 

 Corresponding Secretary, under the seal of the Academy, and forwarded 

 to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House. 



N. Holmes, S. Reber, and Richard Hayes were appointed on 

 the committee. 



Capt. vSilas Bent and Chas. Doty were elected associate mem- 

 bers, and J. E. Tett a corresponding member. 



February 2, 1874. 

 W. T. Harris, President in the chair. 



Thirteen members present. 



Publications received, laid upon the table. 



Mr. Albert Todd presented a specimen of silver ore, of very 

 rich quality,- from the mines of Georgetown, Col. ; also a curious 

 piece of a Rock formation found in the same locality, and known 

 there by the name of "Devil's Beeswax," because of the grooves 

 upon its surface resembling the cuts made in beeswax by draw- 

 ing a thread over it. 



Capt. C. F. Bendire exibited a curious lizard — the Holodema 

 horridnm — which he had collected in Arizona. It is reputed poi- 

 sonous, but Prof. Baird of Washington doubts the fact of its being 

 so, though it has a groove in the back part of the tooth like that 

 of some poisonous serpents. 



Dr. J. S. Copes presented, in behalf of the New Orleans Aca- 

 demy of Science, specimens of a very fine rock salt taken at a 

 depth of So feet from the salt formations on Petite Anse island in 

 Vermilion Bay, La. It is a very pure salt, but cannot profitably 

 be brought to the New Orleans market in competition with that 

 which is brought over as ballast from Liverpool. He also pre- 

 sented specimens of sulphur taken from the mines of Calcasieu 

 Parish, La., said to be the largest deposit in the world. 



The meeting closed with a metaphysical discussion, participated 

 in by Messrs. Holmes, Todd, Harris, Copes, Briggs, and Riley, 

 on the imponderables. 



