90 JOURNAL OF THE I .1 uly. 



PROCEEDINGS. 



Meeting of February 19TH, 1S92, 



The President, Mr. J. D, Hyatt, in the chair. 



Sixty persons present. 



Prof. Samuel Lockwood, Ph.D., addressed the Society on 

 "The Blood after Electrocution." This address referred espe- 

 cially to the appearances of the corpuscles of the blood of 

 Kemmler, the first victim in the State of New York of the inflic- 

 tion of the death penalty by means of the electric current. 



Dr. Lockwood maintained that the condition of the red corpus- 

 cles of the blood, taken from the head of the victim in the direct 

 path of the current five minutes after electrocution, shows the 

 effect of the dreadful shock. " Here is an exhibit of an astonish- 

 ing catastrophe. In no instance has a single corpuscle escaped 

 damage. All are reduced fully one-third in size. Many of them 

 look as if they were smashed. From some the protoplasm ex- 

 udes like the pulp from a crushed grape. Many are reduced to 

 mere granules, and distortion is general." 



The address was illustrated by lantern projections of photomi- 

 crographs of blood corpuscles from various animals, from normal 

 human blood, and from Kemmler's blood, and also by prepara- 

 tions under microscopes as indicated below. 



OBJECTS exhibited. 



1. Blood of Frog. 



2. Blood of Alligator. 



3. Blood of Pigeon. 



4. Blood of Dog. 



5. Normal human blood. 



6. Kemmler's blood, from the thigh. 



7. Kemmler's blood, from the head. 

 All by Samuel Lockwood. 



Meeting of March 4Th, 189: 



The President, Mr. J. D. Hyatt, in the chair. 

 Fifteen persons present. 



