DuTiglison.] 54 [October. 



Stated Meeting, October 3, 1862. 



Present, thirteen members. 



Judge Sharswood, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A letter transmitting a donation for the Library was re- 

 ceived from the Royal Academy at Madrid, dated January 

 1st, 1862. 



Donations to the Library were received from the London 

 Geographical, Geological, and Antiquarian Societies ; So- 

 ciety of Arts and Institutions in Union ; Dr. Edward Jarvis 

 of Dorchester, Mass., and Prof. A. D. Bache. 



Donations for the Cabinet were received from Prof. Bache, 

 and Capt. Thomas Y. Field, U. S. Marine Corps. 



The committee to which was referred the manuscripts of 

 the late President of the Society, Peter C. Duponceau, pre- 

 sented by his granddaughter, reported, recommending that 

 these manuscripts be carefully preserved in the Library of 

 the Society. 



Obituary notices of Professor Tucker and of G. W. Be- 

 thune, D.D., were read by Dr. Dunglison. 



Obituary Notice of Prof. George Tucker. 



Professor George Tucker was born in Bermuda in the year 1775. 

 He came to this country when about twelve years of age, to be 

 educated under the superintendence of his relative, Judge St. 

 George Tucker, who was Professor of Law in the College of William 

 and Mary in Virginia, and was the father of Judge Beverly Tucker, 

 afterwards Professor of Law in the same college, and of Judge Henry 

 St. George Tucker, Professor of Law in the University of Virginia, 

 and author of Commentaries on the Laws of Virginia. Professor 

 Tucker's collegiate education was at the College of William and 

 Mary, after which he studied law, and practised his profession in 

 Richmond, and afterwards at Pittsylvania and in Lynchburg, and for 

 a considerable distance around, with great success. He was elected 

 to the Legislature of Virginia from Pittsylvania, and in 1819, whilst 

 a resident of Lynchburg, was chosen mendjer of Congress to represent 

 the district composed of the counties of Pittsylvania, Halifax, and 

 Campbell. He was in Richmond at the time of the terrible sacrifice 

 of life by the burning of the Theatre in 1811, and from a falling 



