Dr. A. Galney presented the Academy with a portion of the 

 skeleton of a monkey, an arm and leg being lacking. 



Mr. Theo. P. Gillespie, a gentleman recently arrived from Peru, 

 was introduced to the members by Dr. Briggs, and exhibited a 

 collection of pottery taken from the burial grounds of an ancient 

 tribe of Peruvians. The graves from which the specimens were 

 taken were in drift sand near the sea beach. The graves are 

 supposed to belong to a tribe that was conquered by the Incas 

 fifty or sixty years before the advent of Pizarro in Peru. Mam- 

 bones were found, being preserved by the perfect dryness of the 

 sand in which they were buried. The greater portion of these 

 relics were found along the line of the Chimbote and Huaraz 

 railroad, latitude 7 S., and, with few exceptions, they represent 

 what are supposed to have been drinking vessels. In several of 

 the specimens the handle, which is hollow, arches over the top of 

 the vessel, the two branches of the tube uniting in a single verti- 

 cal tube of several inches in length. The ornamentation, both in 

 form and color, was in many cases very striking and expressive. 

 A small mould of strongly baked clav — the negative of a human 

 face — containing within it the figure which it was designed to 

 reproduce, was also shown. The collection contains twenty- 

 seven specimens. Three specimens of copper were also exhib- 

 ited, viz., a finger-ring, a' long needle with an eye, and a chisel 

 with a smooth edge and battered head. 



The thanks of the Academy were tendered Mr. Gillespie for 

 his kindness in the exhibition of this interesting collection. 



Dr. Geo. Engelmann made the following report on the Meteor- 

 ology of March, 1876 : 



The past March was not only an unusually cool month, but it made 

 itself so much the more disagreeably and injuriously felt, inasmuch as 

 it succeeded to a very mild winter and an unusually early and favorable 

 spring development. 



The mean temperature of the past winter was 40. 2°, and that of every 

 whiter month at least over 39 ; February, the coolest, 39.3 ; and here 

 comes March with 38.3 , destroying the brightest prospects for full and 

 early fruit crops. In the last 41 years the mean temperature of March was 

 over 5 degs. higher than this year; six times it was lower than in the past 

 month, but it never in that period of time was lower than that of each of 

 the preceding winter months. As I have stated on a former occasion, the 

 only winter equal to the past in mildness was that of 1844-45, Dut the 



