TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



SCIENTIFIC SECTION. 

 1890-1893. 



NOVEMBER 25, 1890— FIRST REGULAR MEETING. 



Present Chairman Elsworth; Members Burgess, Cooley, 

 C. N. Arnold, Dwight, Herrick, Pelton, Van Gieson, 

 Warring, Rogers, Neumann, Wodell, F. S. Arnold, 

 and thirty visitors. 



After the minutes of the last meeting were read and 

 approved, the chairman officially announced to the 

 section the death of the Curator, Dr. William G. Steven- 

 son. As curator 2^to tern., the chairman reported pro- 

 gress in the museum and made special mention of a 

 valuable collection of Indian antiquities. The Librarian 

 reported a list of twenty bound volumes and a large 

 number of pamphlets as accessions to the Library since 

 the last meeting, and a recommendation to purchase 

 some additional volumes which the section authorized 

 him to lay before the Trustees. 



When the study of specimens was in order, a piece of 

 hematite was presented by Isaac Tompkins and C. N. 

 Arnold exhibited a specimen of aluminum. The Chair- 

 man, E. Elsworth, presented a paper entitled "A Question 

 of Professional Ethics" in connection with Dr. Koch's 

 reported discoveries. He made a brief sketch of the life 

 and labor of Dr. Koch, commending his discovery and 

 indefatigable researches in the medical field, but in- 

 clined to criticise the secrecy in which his present investi- 



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