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Polytechnic, and the Philosophical and Literary Societies of 

 Leeds; from the Wisconsin Commission for exhibiting the 

 destruction of Forest Trees ; from Prof. J. Wyman ; and from 

 the publishers of the Journal of Medical Sciences and Medical 

 News. 



The decease of Prof. A. T. Kupffer, on 4th June, 1865, 

 aged G5 years, and of James Jackson, M.D., of Boston, in 

 August, 1867, aged 90 years, both members of this Society, 

 was announced. 



Dr. Emmerson referred to the hailstorm which passed over 

 this city on Wednesday of last week, and mentioned the pe- 

 culiarity of its advance from the north, as well as the con- 

 struction of some of the hailstones which he had examined, 

 being internally composed of snow, surrounded by an outer 

 crust of ice. Observations were made on the subject of this 

 storm by other members. 



Pending nominations Nos. 576, 579, 580, and 581, were 

 read. 



And the Society was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting^ October 18, 1867. 



Present, nine members. 



Prof. Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read from C. H. Crane, Assistant Surgeon- 

 General U. S. Army, dated October 3d, and from Gustavus 

 Henrichs, dated October 8, 1867, accompanying donations 

 for the Library. 



Donations for the Library were announced: From the Geo- 

 graphical Society at Paris ; from Prof. F. Zantedeschi, Padua; 

 from Prof. Gustavus Henrichs, Iowa City ; from the Essex 

 Institute, Salem ; from J. W. Alvord, Superintendent of the 

 Freedmen's Bureau; from Dr. Charles M. Wetherill ; from 

 Dr. J. I. Cohen, of Baltimore; from C. H. Crane, Assistant 

 Surgeon-General U. S. Army, and from the Franklin In- 

 stitute, Philadelphia. 



