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deciphering the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt. The 

 event recorded by the Rosetta stone, the decree issued at 

 the coronation of Ptolemy Epiphanes, took place at Mem- 

 phis in March, 193 B. C. This cast is one of Ward's 

 series, and was made at Rochester, N. Y. 



The President called the attention of the meeting to 

 the decease of Prof. Jeffries Wyman, of Cambridge, a 

 valued corresponding member, which occurred at Bethle- 

 hem, N. 11., on the 4th inst., in his sixty-first year. He 

 spoke of the great loss which the Institute and science 

 had sustained in his death, and alluded to the very promi- 

 nent positions which he had held, and his worth both as 

 a man and a scientist. 



Vice President F. W. Putnam gave an account of the 

 scientific work of Prof. Wyraan, alluding especially to 

 the "Teat care with which he conducted all his researches ; 

 his extreme cautiousness ; the remarkable thoroughness 

 of his work and the extraordinary modesty, but at the 

 same time amazing force, with which he advanced his 

 views. As an anatomist and physiologist he was without 

 a superior, and he was a most careful and profound inves- 

 tigator in archaeology, to which science he had devoted 

 the later years of his life. His work upon the ancient 

 shell heaps of Florida, which is now being printed by the 

 Peabody Academy of Science, will be a lasting monument 

 to him as an archaeologist, and will exhibit the care with 

 which he performed his investigations and deduced his 

 results. 



Mr. Putnam then offered the following resolutions, 

 which were unanimously adopted: — 



Whereas, the Essex Institute has learned with deep 



