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and the New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, Oct. 

 27th, 1865. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the N. H. 

 S., Emden, August 1st, and the R. Asiatic S. London, June 

 22d, 1865. 



Letters acknowledging the receipts of their Certificates 

 of membership were received from Geo. J. Brush, New 

 Haven, October 4th, Thos. C. Porter, Lancaster, October 

 19th, and R. L Ingersoll, October 28th, 1865. 



Donations for the Library were reported from the R. A. 

 at Lisbon, the Geographical, Antiquarian, Asiatic, Chemical, 

 and Early English Text Societies at London, the Dublin 

 Quarterly Journal of Science, Astronomer Royal Airy, New 

 Hampshire State Agricultural Society, New Hampshire His- 

 torical Society, Franklin Institute, Captain W. F. Goodwin, 

 and the Superintendent of the Girard Estate, Mr. C. S. 

 Smith. 



Dr. Gross, pursuant to appointment, presented an obituary 

 notice of the late member, Charles "VV. Short, the reading of 

 which was postponed to the following meeting. 



Mr. Chase communicated certain observations on the mag- 

 netic observations at Toronto and St. Helena. 



Prof. Cresson called attention to an article in the New 

 Hampshire Agricultural Reports, stating that boiling water, 

 applied to growing onions, will arrest the ravages of a maggot 

 which attacks that bulb, without injury to the bulb from the 

 hot water. 



Prof. Cresson described also the discovery of fish in the 

 water of a coal mine, which had no communication Avith any 

 running stream upon the surface, except by percolation 

 through a great thickness of rocks. 



Dr. Wood mentioned the discovery of a number of Indian 

 implements upon Cohansey Creek in New Jersey, among 

 which was a spindle-shaped stone, probably the roller or 

 pestle of a quern, for grinding food. Prof. Trego described 

 a similar pestle of greenstone trap from Bucks County. Mr. 

 Briggs described the use of such rollers by the Pueblo Indians 

 now. 



