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April 27th, 1877. — Regular Meeting. 



Rev. S. S. Hunting, President, in the cliair. 



Seventeen members present. 



The Publication Committee reported 120 pages of the Pro- 

 ceedings printed, and that the first part of Voh II would be 

 ready for distribution as soon as the necessary illustrations were 

 completed. 



The Committee on raising subscriptions to the building fund, 

 reported that $2,000 had been subscribed, of which some $400 

 had been paid into the Treasury. 



Dr. Farquharson reported letters from Dr. E. Sterling, of 

 Cleveland, Ohio, in reference to the discovery of inscribed 

 tablets by the Mormons in Southern Illinois, and from Prof. 

 Jos. L. Barfoot, of Salt Lake City, containing copies of the in- 

 scriptions and the account of their discovery. They are twelve 

 in number, covering either side of six brass bell-shaped plates, 

 which were dug from a mound near Kinderhook, Pike County, 

 Ills., by Robert Wiley, in 1843. 



A letter was also read from Prof. S. F. Baird, Assistant Sec- 

 retary of the Smithsonian Institution, to whom the tablets 

 found by Mr. Gass were sent for examination, in which he says 

 " there appears every evidence of the genuineness of the speci- 

 mens, and the discovery is certainly one of very high interest." 



The usual number of donations to the Library and Museum 

 were announced, and accepted with a vote of thanks to the 

 donors. Among the latter, a stuffed heron (Ardea ho'odias) 

 from Dr. J. H. Reid; a fine peacock from Jas. Ryan, and a 

 magnificent collection of crystals from near Little Rock, Ark., 

 donated by Mrs. H. M. Mandeville. 



Messrs. E. A. Clark, S. F. Smith, J. S. Pierce, Mrs. Isabel 

 Sheaf, Mrs. J. J. Humphrey, Mrs. George McClelland, Miss 

 Rose Dawson, of Davenport ; Messrs. Chas. H. Truax, B. F. 

 Reeve, D. A. Fletcher, of Maquoketa, were elected regular 

 members, and the following persons corresponding members of 

 the Academy : 



Chas. C. Abbott, Trenton. N. .J. J. A. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. 

 Alex. Agassiz, Cambridge, Mass. Dr. Edmund Andrews, Chicago. 



