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“Bostox, December 20, 1859. 
rof. G. Seyrrartu, D.D.—My Dear Sir: Your kind favors of the 
came aboard my boat the next evening, and showed me apyrus and 
Tablet. I was then sure he had found the body of some person of conse- 
quence; so I purchased all three. I then started down the river, and 
when I arrived at Kenet, I had come to the conclusion that there were 
other articles still belonging with the Papyrus-scroll, and I sent my drago- 
man back to Thebes to bring the man and anything of value he might 
ich I purchased. 
the neck of the mummy by a string, the Scarabeeus lay on the breast, and 
e Eagle and Asp were nailed on i top boas mummiy-case 
t ? , 
Your oe ®" GRORGE A. STONE.” 
A paper presented for publication by A. H, Worthen, 
State Tetlogin of the State of Illinois, entitled “A pect 
of a new species of Platycrinus and other fossils from the 
Mountain Limestone of Illinois and Towa, being an cal 
tract from the 2d Annual Report of the Illinois snag 
Survey,” was read by the Corresponding Secretary. 
ferred to a committee. A. HL Worthen, 
A p : 
State Geologist, entitled “Review of some points in Dr. B. 
bi 
F. Shumard’s Report on the Geology of Ste. 
Mo.,” was read es the Corresponding Secretary, and referre 
to a committee. 
letter was read from Dr. 
at no great distance from Port Orford, 
in Oregon, and soliciting the countenan 
A iaherance of the efforts now — mad 
- Government to cause the same to ington and 
and described, or, if practicable, removed to cee 
deposited in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. 
