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for damages arising out of the charges made, and that he considered 

 the evidences of the alleged fraud matters to be used in defense 

 against such an action, and that to put Mr. Harrison in possession of 

 the same would give him an unfair advantage in the event of the 

 threatened litigation. Mr. Tiffany further admitted that he had never 

 presented to the Academy any charges against the genuineness of said 

 relics, the genuineness of their finding, or against the honesty and good 

 faith of Mr. Harrison in regard to the same. 



Your committee has not deemed it within its province — under the 

 foregoing resolution — to inquire into the genuineness of said relics, 

 except as far as it might be necessary, in the event of evidence of fraud 

 being offered. But no evidence has been offered that might, in any 

 way, lead to the Academy changing its present position in regard to 

 these relics: or to sustain any charges made by Mr. Tiffany. Neither 

 is there any reason, known to yorr committee, for doubting the entire 

 correctness of the statements made at the time of finding, or since, by 

 the gentlemen concerned in the discovery of the relics. 



In conclusion, your committee recommends that Mr. Tiffany — who, 

 by his own acknowledgment, has been guilty of acts, as above men- 

 tioned, which are clearly unjust, and especially to be condemned in a 

 member of a scientific association — be subjected to the penalty of 

 expulsion from the regular membership of the Academy. 



Dated March 26, 1886. Signed, H. C. Fulton. 



C. H. Preston. 

 James Thompson. 



C. C. Parry. 



D. S. Sheldon. 



On motion, the report was accepted and placed on file, and com- 

 mittee discharged. 



The following resolution was then offered and passed — yeas, 25; 

 nays, 2 : 



Whereas, The special committee appointed by the Academy on December 

 26, last, to investigate the matter of the conduct of Mr. A. S. Tiffany, in making 

 and putting in circulation grave charges against the honor and good faith of his 

 associate members, having reported that, after a careful investigation, it finds 

 Mr. Tiffany, by his own acknowledgments, guilty of the charges made by the 

 resolution, and that he still claims his charges to he true, hut refuses to attempt 

 to present any proof of the same; and 



Whereas, The committee recommends that Mr. Tiffany he subjected to 

 the penalty of expulsion from the regular membership of the Academy; and 



Whereas, We believe the action recommended by the committee to he 

 just, under the circumstances; that vindication against unproven charges is due 

 u> the gentlemen instrumental in the discovery of the relics charged to be 

 frauds; that the Academy owes to itself the duty of protection against internal 

 dissension, to the end that its energies may he directed to the purposes of its 

 organization, and not to he wasted on controversies instituted without apparent 



