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of oificers, who, with a popularity equal to their zeal and scientific stand- 

 ing, will be able to interest our citizens in the promotion of our unselfish 

 objects more than the present officers were able to do, and for yourselves 

 regularly to attend our gatherings, and each of you to try and bring his 

 share to heighten the scientific interest of these meetings. 



The Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer presented their 

 annual reports, and the accounts of the Treasurer were referred to 

 an auditing committee. 



The annual election of officers of the Academy resulted in the 

 choice of the following : 



President — John B. Johnson, M.D. 



\st Vice-President — Louis Charles Boisliniere, M.D. 



2d Vice-President — Edwin Harrison, S.B. 



Corresponding Secretary — Hon. Samuel Reber. 



Recording Secretary — Charles V. Riley. 



Treasurer — Dr. Enno Sander. 



Librarian — J. J. Bailey. 



February 6, 187 1. 



Dr. J. B. Johnson, President, in the chair. 



Ten members present. 



The Corresponding Secretary reported his correspondence and 

 exchanges. 



Dr. Briggs, from the Auditing Committee, reported that the 

 Committee had examined the accounts of the Treasurer and found 

 them correct. 



The President appointed Dr. George Engelmann chairman of 

 the Committee on Publication. 



Dr. E. Sander read a letter from a correspondent announcing 

 the discovery of a skeleton of a Mastodon in the State of Missis- 

 sippi. 



Di. Engelmann presented a fragment of shell rock (coquina) 

 from St. Augustine, Florida. It was a recent conglomerate of 

 shells with some corals loosely cemented, and could be easily 

 worked with a saw or hatchet. He exhibited, also, a specimen 

 of white printing paper, of good quality, made from the fibre of 

 Abutilon Avicennce^ a common barn-yard weed of the family of 

 Malvaceae, perfectly naturalized in this country, from Asia via 

 Southern Europe, but not as completely naturalized in Europe as 

 here. 



