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when the legislative power shall be more corrupted than the execu- 

 tive." This melancholy warning is at this moment as applicable to 

 us, as ever it was to England ; and if the trial by jury be the main 

 bulwark for the defence of our liberties, God grant in His goodness 

 that, in the words of our Constitution, it may forever remain inviolate ; 

 and to remain inviolate, it must be untouched in any of its principles. 

 We have, I believe, and with the deepest humiliation I make the ad- 

 mission in the hope of the remedy, already in our brief history lite- 

 rally fulfilled that only condition which the French philosopher and 

 patriot places before a national downfall ; for already our legislatures 

 are more corrupt than our executives, and our only hope of rescue 

 remains in our executives, more pure than the legislative power, in 

 the untouched integrity of our judiciaries, and in the virtue of the 

 body of the people, who give that virtue expression more surely through 

 the verdicts of their juries, than in the exercise of their elective 

 franchise, or by their legislative action. 



Mr. Peale presented to the notice of the Society, a box of 

 stone implements, taken by Mr. John Evans of England, 

 with his own hands, from the gravel-pits of St. Acheuil, near 

 Amiens ; and also, for comparison, a number of specimens 

 from his own collection of American Indian remains. It was 

 evidently characteristic of the European specimens, that they 

 were of larger size, and all of them formed from the flints of 

 the Cretaceous formation. Members present expressed their 

 conviction that the forms were artificial. 



Mr. Foulke exhibited a copy of the "Pharmacopoeia Lon- 

 dinensis Collegarum. Hodie viventium studiis ac Symholis 

 ornatior. Londini. Typis W. Bentley, impensis L. Sadler, 

 et R. Beaumont. An. 1668," a curious 16° (about 4 inches 

 by 2) of 349 pages, with an Index Reryiediorum, which he 

 presented for the Library of the Society. 



Mr. Foulke stated that he had designed to offer some re- 

 marks suggested by the formulae of this Pharmacopoeia, re- 

 specting the relations of medical science and art to the general 

 condition of science and art in England at the date of the 



