160 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [jUNE 6, 



time, since they belong to our own period, and are the work of 

 engineers of our own day. 



May 30, 1887. 

 No meeting hekl. 



June 6, 1887. 



Regular Business Meeting. 



The President, Dr. J. S. Newberry, in the chair. 



Thirty-four persons present. 



The report of the Council recommended the payment of cer- 

 tain bills, and the making of certain ajDjDropriations. 



Verbal reports were made by several officers and committees. 



Several minor items of miscellaneous business were acted 

 upon. 



Mr. W. a. J. SiEBERG read a proposition from the Hew York 

 Mineralogical Club asking to be received into the Academy as 

 the mineralogical section. The proposition was favorably re- 

 ceived and was referred to the Council. 



It was voted that when the meeting adjourned, it should be 

 to meet in August, at the call of the President and Secretary, 

 during the session of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. 



The President, Prof. J. S. Newberry, exhibited 



a new meteorite from TENNESSEE. 



(Abstract.) 



This is an entire metallic meteorite, which he had received 

 from Dr. A. R. Ledoux, to whom it had been sent from Knox- 

 ville, Tenn. It was found on the Cumberland Mountains. It 

 had evidently been exposed to fire and was considerably weath- 

 ered, for the coarse crystalline structure, such as produces 

 Widmanstiitten figures on etched surfaces, was very plainly re- 

 vealed. No analysis has yet been made of this meteorite, but it 

 undoubtedly contains 90 per cent or more of metallic iron. A 



