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large part of these are evidently Indian, and may have useful 

 or curious significations, there are others mixed with them 

 made by white men. Among the latter, I would indicate the 

 five-pointed star in a rude circle. 



This rock is 15 miles southeast of Fort Harker, and 492 

 miles west of St. Louis. There are many others, covered in 

 like manner with rude aboriginal devices, in the West. It is 

 to be hoped that all may be copied as faithfully as this. These 

 may be, hereafter, very curious and valuable, as relics of a 

 race which is fast fading away, a race so irreclaimable and so 

 worthless, that it is difficult for the philanthropist to regret 

 their departure. 



Pending nominations Nos. 586, 587 and 588 were read. 

 And the Society was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, March 20, 1868. 



Present, eight members. 



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



Donations for the Library were announced : from the 

 Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences at Berlin ; from the 

 Geographical Society of Paris; from the Essex Institute at 

 Salem ; from the Trustees of the Peabody Museum ; from 

 John Alexander Ferris, A.M., San Francisco ; from the 

 United States Naval Observatory ; from the Young Men's 

 Library Association of Cincinnati; from the Editors of the 

 Journal of Arts and Sciences ; from the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences at Philadelphia; from the Pennsylvania Institution 

 for the Instruction of the Blind ; and from P. B. Dyke. 



Mr. P. E. Chase called the attention of the Society to an 

 article in the last number of the American Journal of Arts 

 and Sciences on the subject of revolving meteoric trains ob- 

 served at Dartmouth College and Iowa City. 



Mr. Marsh, in reference to the shooting stars of November, 

 1867, stated that he had received a letter from B. R. Lewis, 

 Deputy U. S. Consul-General at Shanghai, from which he 

 read tlie following abstracts from the logs of vessels stationed 

 at that port : 



