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nated among the whole body, and a certain esprit du corps, 
uncontaminated with jealousy, in some degree combines the 
talents of members to forward the views of a single person.” 
The Lunar Society has long passed into history, and the 
workers in science of this generation must content themselves 
with scanty reminiscences, and with the thought that we gaze 
on the smiling face of the same moon that shone on the festive 
philosophers of Birmingham! 
Remarks were made by the PRESIDENT. 
[In preparing this sketch we have made free use of the following 
works: 
Muirhead’s ‘‘ Life of James Watt,” London, 1858. 
Muirhead’s ‘‘ Mechanical Inventions of Watt,” London, 1854. 
Smiles’ ‘‘ Lives of Boulton and Watt,’’ London, 1864. 
Krause’s ‘‘ Erasmus Darwin,” London, 1879. 
Edgworth’s ‘‘ Memoirs,” London, 1820, 2 vols. 
Brougham’s ‘‘ Philosophers of the Time of George III.,”’ London, 1855, 
Rutt’s ‘‘ Life and Correspondence of Priestley,” London, 1832. 2 vols. 
Jewett’s ‘‘ Life of William Hutton,’”’ London, n. d. 
‘‘Life of Mary Ann Schimmel Penninck,” by herself, London, 1859. 
Meteyard’s ‘“‘ Life of Wedgwood,” London, 1865. 2 vols. 
Meteyard’s ‘‘Group of Englishmen,” London, 1871. 
As well as of:— 
Forty-one unpublished letters from Priestley to Wedgwood, loaned to 
the writer by Mrs. Robert A. Wainewright, granddaughter of the great 
chemist. ] 
Mr. B. B. CHAMBERLIN read a paper on 
THE MINERALS OF NEW YORK COUNTY, INCLUDING A LIST 
COMPLETE TO DATE. 
Literature of Local Mineralogy.—Mineral Collectors. 
The first record we have of New York as a mineral locality is 
inthe Mineralogical Journal, conducted by Archibald Bruce, 
M.D., in the year 1814, of which only one volume was issued. 
The list of minerals there given is scanty, and these are chiefly 
from Corlear’s Hook. Among the collectors appears the name 
of Mr. Fred. S. Cozzens, one of a family which has given much 
attention to local research. 
In the year 1825, there was issued an important work entitled 
<A Catalogueof American Minerals,” by Samuel Robinson, M.D. 
The author devotes separate sections of descriptive matter to 
what is now New York County, viz., New York City and island, 
Corlear’s Hook, Harlem Heights, Kingsbridge, Morrisania, and 
Bronx River. 
The list of minerals shows no attempt at systematic arrange- 
