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MEMOIR OF DAKIEL TREADWELL. 



scientific, literary, and social purposes. The first meeting was held at his house in 

 November, 1842. The regular meetings for forty-five years have since been held on 

 the second and fourth Thursdays of each month, for the greater part of the year, at 

 the houses of the members in rotation. The member at whose house the meeting was 

 held at the same time read a paper, the evening closing with a supper. The paper 

 — it has never been omitted — sometimes prepared for publication, was almost always 

 connected with the reader's department in the University, or his profession, and was a 

 subject of friendly criticism, both on its reading and at the table, where the most 

 perfect freedom prevailed. The number of members was usually limited to twelve.! 

 Mr. Treadwell rarely failed to be present at these meetings; he took a lively interest 

 in the subjects brought forward, and his remarks upon them were serious and 

 thoughtful. At the table he added to the general enjoyment by his good humor 

 and ready repartee. 



Subjects of Professor TreadwelVs Papers. 



May 12, 1853. 



March 23, 1854. 

 November 22, 1855. 

 October 30, 1856. 

 December 10, 1857. 

 April 22, 1858. 



January 27, 1859. 



Construction of Cannon of large Calibre 



First meeting of the Club. 

 Percussion. 



State of the Arts among the Romans. 

 Aqueducts of Rome. 

 Friction. 



Stephenson's Tubular Bridge, Menai Strait. 



Pj-ecious Metals, particularly the Gold Mines of Russia and California. 

 Second paper on Percussion. 

 Captain Beaufoy's Book on the Increase of the Size of Vessel to gain 



Speed. 

 Joseph Priestley. 



Discovery of America, — Columbus and Washington. 

 Machinery of War since 1815. 

 Scientific Societies. 

 Ocean Telegraph. 



Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. Credibility of Testimony. 

 Clocks and Watches. 



t The following gentlemen were members of the Club with Professor Treadwell, from 1842 to 1862. 



* Louis Agassiz. 



* Charles Beck. 

 Francis Boweu. 



* Charles Henry Davis. 

 Epes S. Diswell. 



* Edward Everett. 



* Cornelius Conway Felton. 



* Asa Gray. 



Those marked with an asterisk are dead. 



* Simon Greenleaf. 



* Thaddeus Mason Harris. 

 Thomas Hill. 



* William Kent. 

 Joseph Lovering. 



* Joel Parker. 



* Benjamin Peirce. 



* Josiah Quincy. 



* Jared Sparks. 



* James W.ilker. 



* Emory Washburn. 



* Joseph Winlock. 



* Joseph Emerson Worcester. 

 Monill Wyman. 



