MINUTES OP MEETINGS. 93 



Rev. Charles Fox, - - - Trenton, Mich. 



Prof. Benjamin Silliman, Jr., - New Haven, Conn. 

 C.Cobb, Esq., . . . . Buffalo, N. Y. 

 Hon. E. Lane, - - - . Sandusky City, O. 

 Dr. E. S. Lane, - - - Sandusky City, O. 



Prof. James Hall, - - - , - Albany, N. Y. 

 Prof. E. B. Andrews, - - - - Marietta, O. 

 L. V. Bierce, Esq., ----- Akron, O. 

 E. N. Sill, Esq., - - - Cuyahoga Falls, O. 

 Prof. J. M. Safford, - - - - Lebanon, Tenn. 

 Dr. Henry King, - - - - St. Louis, Mo. 

 Dr. George Engieman, - - - St. Louis, Mo. 

 Prof. Abraham Sager, - - Ann Arbor, Mich. 

 Dr. C. L. Clark, - - - - - Flint, Mich. 

 Dr. J. G. Norwood, - - New Harmony, Ind. 

 Matthew C. Reed, Esq., - - - Hudson, 0. 



A committee of three, Messrs. Winslow, Smith and Gar- 

 lick, were appointed to examine the cabinets and superin- 

 tend certain necessary rei^airs. 



Messrs. Newberry, Brainerd and Smith were appointed a 

 committee to prepare a diploma. 



Cleveland, March 21, 1854. 



Prof. Kirtland reported the shell presented at a former 

 meeting, sent from Cincinnati as a bivalve, to be the Cypris 

 Anodontoides^ Kirt., having been described from specimens 

 obtained by himself and Dr. Garlick, in Mahoning county, 

 0., some years since. 



Mr. Joseph Ronton presented a communication to the 

 Society in reference to his process of obtaining wrought 

 iron directly from the ore. 



Dr. Kirtland presented specimens of Percopsis^ from 

 Rocky River, O.; also, specimens of the Alburnus nitidus; 

 also a letter from L A. Lapham, Esq., of Milwaukee, des- 

 cribing a new sjDecies of Alhui'nus^ and one from Dr. T. W. 

 Harris, of Cambridge, relative to the Vaiiessa furcillata^ 

 Say, of which we give an extract below. 



