18<37.] 141 [Fleury. 



acknowledffing the same, regretting inability to present the first vol- 

 umes of its Memoires, and asking for Volume V. of the Society's 

 Journal ; Societe des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchatel, October 18th, 

 1866, acknowledging the same and asking for the Journal, etc. From 

 the Gotheborg's Kongliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhots Samhiille, Goth- 

 enburg, October 10th, 1865, presenting its publications, and accept- 

 ing the proposition to exchange. From the Naturforschende Gesell- 

 schaft zu Halle, May 28th, 1866, presenting its publications. From 

 the K. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, December 

 1st, 1866, acknoAvledging the i-eceipt of the Society's ^publications, 

 and presenting its own. 



The Custodian stated that the collection of Shells recently 

 bequeathed to tlie Society by Miss Pratt, contained 14,284 

 specimens. 



Mr. T. T. Bouve announced the bequest of $20,000 by our 

 late Patron, Mr. Paschal P. Pope. 



Mr. T. T. Bouve and Drs. S. L. Abbot and J. C. White 

 were appointed a Committee to examine the portraits and 

 photographs of the late Dr. Wm. J. "Walker and report what 

 steps were necessary to secure a good representation of him. 



The following persons were elected Resident Members: 

 Messrs. Francis Brooks, C. P. Donahoe, C. Frank Emmons, 

 J. D. Hague, George J. Harris and Austin Sumner of Bos- 

 ton, and Mr. Henry N. Blake of Chelsea. 



March 20, 1867. 



Vice President Dr. Charles T. Jackson in the chair. Twenty- 

 nine members present. 



The following paper was presented : — 



Rocks ix Nature and in the Arts. By Prof. A. L. Fleury, 

 OF New York. 



Rocks are the acknowledged foundation, the framework, the skele- 

 ton of this our inhabited globe. 



No where does nature show her grandeur and majesty better than 



