Hay den.] 274 [November. 



Stated Meeting, November 2, 1866. 



Present, eleven members. 



Vice-President Prof. Cresson in the Chair. 



Letters were read from Jeffries Wyman, dated Cambridge, 

 Mass., October 25; from J. M. Da Costa, dated Phihidelphia, 

 October 26, and from R, J. Breckenridge, dated Danville, 

 Kj., October 27, severally acknowledging the receipt of the 

 notice of their election as members. Also from J. C. Adams, 

 Cambridge Observatory, England, inclosing his photographic 

 likeness, and requesting to be supplied with missing numbers 

 of the Society's Proceedings ; and from J. E. Hilgard, 

 dated Washington, D. C, October, 1866, announcing the 

 transmission of the first volume of the Memoirs of the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences. 



Donations for the Library were announced as received from 

 various sources, as follows: Treatise entitled "La Sarcine de 

 I'Estomac," by Prof. Suringar ; Transactions of the Zoolog- 

 ical Society of London ; The Philosophical Magazine and 

 Journal, London ; Transactions of the Connecticut Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences ; Memoir of T. E. Blackwell ; Memoirs 

 of the National Academy of Sciences ; Journal of the Frank- 

 lin Institute, and Medical News and Library. 



Judge Sharswood was excused from preparing an obituary 

 notice of the late Judge Taney. 



Dr. Hayden made some remarks on a short visit to the 

 celebrated Pipestone Quarry, and exhibited some specimens 

 of the rock, as well as some pipes and other ornaments that 

 had been made from the rock with a turning lathe. The 

 Northwest Fur Company have manufactured nearly two 

 thousand pipes within the past two years, and traded them 

 to the Indians on the Upper Missouri. This fact will 

 throw a suspicion on the genuineness of Indian pipes in 

 the future. 



Dr. H. stated that the locality where the pipestone is found is sit- 

 uated at the head of Pipestone Creek, a small tributary of the Big 



