Smith. J 33Q ' [March. 



Mr. P. E. Chase was added to the Committee of Indian 

 Photographs. 



And the Society was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, March 15, 1867. 



Present, thirteen members. 



Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read from Dr. Joseph Leidy, accompanying a 

 description and an analysis, by Dr. J. Lawrence Smith, of a 

 Meteorite, belonging to the American Philosophical Society, 

 deposited with other minerals in the collection of the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; from Dr. B. F. 

 Shumard, St. Louis, March 4, 1867, inclosing his photo- 

 graph ; from the Ordnance Department, Southampton, Eng- 

 land, 18th February, 1867 ; also from the Essex Institute, 

 Salem, Mass., December 19, 1866, accompanying a pro- 

 spectus of the American Naturalist, and requesting brief 

 reports of the proceedings of the Society for publication 

 therein. 



Donations to the Library were announced as follows : From 

 the Essex Institute ; from the Department of State at Wash- 

 ington ; from the Managers of the Philadelphia Gas Works ; 

 from the College of Pharmacy; from Thomas C. Amory, 

 Boston ; and from the publishers of the Medical News and 

 Library. 



Prof. Cresson announced the death of Prof. John H. Alex- 

 ander, a member of the Society, at Baltimore, on the 2d inst. 



The death of Prince Maximilian Zu Weid, as occurring in 

 the 85th year of his age, on the 3d of February, was an- 

 nounced. 



The following communication was read from Dr. J. Law- 

 rence Smith, of Louisville, Kentucky : 



A new Meteoric Iron from Mexico. 

 A fragment of this meteoric mass was placed in my hands by Dr. 



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