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MINUTES. 



[April 21, 



on behalf of Mr. Perry, which was brought from Carthage, 



He said : 



It was in the spring of 1864, if my memory serves me correctly, that, 

 at the urgent request of the Consul-General of the United States, Mr. 

 Amos Peny, the U. S. S. "Constellation," of which I was an officer, 

 paid a visit to the Bey of Tunis, as trouble with the Bedouins had caused 

 alarm among the European residents. 



Carthaginian Tombstone. 



The Consul requested my father. Captain Henry S. Stellwagen, U. S. 

 Navy, to bring two gravestones or stehe to this country and send one 

 each to scientific bodies in Philadelphia and New York. The one 

 exhibited here this evening was first given into the care of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, but afterwards, at the suggestion of an officer of that 

 body, it was sent to the American Philosophical Society. 



At the time of our visit the ruins of Carthage were so completely 



