160 MINUTES OF MEETINGS. 



referred to the Recording Secretary for publication in the 

 OTiio Farmer^ and a committee, consisting of Drs. Hartman, 

 Garlick and Atkinson, appointed to examine into the nature 

 and habits of the Acarii inhabiting the skins of domestic 

 animals. 



Nothing further being presented before the meeting, 

 adjourned for two weeks. 



John Kirkpatrick, Sec^y. 



Cleveland, November 18, 1859. 



The Academy met at the Medical College, the President, 

 J. P. Kirtland, in the chair. 



Col. Charles Whittlesey made an interesting statement 

 regarding the increased yield of iron at the various furnaces 

 in the counties of Trumbull and Mahoning. In old times 

 three tons was considered a good day's work, four being 

 unusual, but at the present time the furnace at Niles turns 

 out thirty-two tons of superior metal in a single day, using 

 the hot blast. Bog iron ore is found abundantly along both 

 sides of the Lake shore, and is used as a flux for the rich 

 ores of Lake Superior. The workmen say that it takes the 

 red, or hot short out of the latter, and thus improves it. 

 The quality of the iron is unsurpassed. It is extremely 

 tough and fibrous when wrought or hammered. Thick bars 

 can be doubled over cold, with the sledge, without showing 

 any trace of fracture, and, in this respect, is quite equal to 

 the best specimens of Swedish. The advantages of Cleve- 

 land, as an iron manufacturing point, are at least equal to 

 any other in the United States, or even in the world, and 

 wrought iron is produced here at lower rates than an equally 

 good article can be imported from Europe. Limestone for 

 a flux can be delivered here at a dollar a ton. 



Col, Whittlesey stated that gas springs were quite numer- 

 ous throughout our State, arising from the black shale — the 



