134 MINUTES OF MEETINGS. 



On motion of Col. Whittlesey the Academy proceeded 

 with the election of officers, with the following result: 



President — Prof. J. P. Kirtland. 

 First Vice President — Prof. Jehu Brainerd, 

 Second Vice President — Col. Chas. Whittlesey, 

 Third Vice President — Dr. Theodatus Garlick, 



Curators. 



Prof. J. P. Kirtland, K. K. Winslow, Esq. 



Dr. T. Garlick, Hon. John Crowell, 



Dr. AV. H. Atkinson, Geo. R. Tuttle, 



Prof- Jehu Brainerd, J. B. Trembley. 



Corresponding Secretary — Dr. W. H. Atkinson, 

 Recording Secretary & Treasurer — J. Kirkpatrick. 



On motion of J. Kirkpatrick, a committee of three was 

 appointed by the Chair to devise ways and means to pro- 

 mote the formation of a library in connection with the 

 Academy. J. Kirkpatrick; Col. Whittlesey and Prof. Jehu 

 Brainerd, committee. 



The meeting then adjourned until Friday evening, 

 December 11, 1857. 



John Kirkpatrick, Sec''y. 



Cleveland, December 11, 1857. 



The Academy of Natural Science met in the rooms of 

 Dr. Kirtland, Medical College, Col. Charles Whittlesey in 

 the chair. 



Dr. Theodatus Garlick presented a bottle containing 

 Lizard, Scorpion, Belostema, &c., which was received and 

 ordered to be placed in the museum. 



Col. Whittlesey presented some specimens of ferrugin- 

 ous quartz from veins in the slates of the Menominee 

 river, which he procured there in 1850, and remarked that 

 although they had not been tested chemically, nor showed 

 particles of gold under a common magnifier, the geological 



