ISUfl.] '^'J [Marston. 



Stated Meeting^ March 19, 1869. 



Present, ten members. 



John C. CRESSOisr, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters accepting membership were received from C. L. 

 Eiitimejer, dated Basel, February, 18th, and from J. Prest- 

 wich, dated Shoreham, near Seven-oaks, England, March 2, 

 1869. 



A letter of envoy was received from the Meteorological 

 Office of the Eoyal Society at London, dated Dec. 24, 1868. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Meteoro- 

 logical Office of the Eo3^al Society of London, from M. Che- 

 valier, Membre de la Commission de I'Exposition Interna- 

 tionale de 1867 at Paris, from the London Board of Trade, 

 from the Boston Natural History Society, from the American 

 Antiquarian Society at Worcester, from the Editors of the 

 American Journal of Arts and Sciences at New Haven, from 

 Prof. Cook, State Geologist of New Jersey, at Newark, from 

 Mr. Henry C. Carey, Mr. Pliny E. Chase, and the College of 

 Pharmacy, at Philadelphia, and from the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tute, at Washington. 



Commodore John Marston presented, for the cabinet, four 

 fragments of painted potterj^, dug up by him, early in the j^ear 

 1861, from the soil of the Island of Sacriiices, near Yera Cruz, 

 Mexico. 



The principal i^iece is 5 inclies long by 2 inches 'wide, a sort of doll, 

 with a fillet over the head, and a painted white plain ribhon-iike collar 

 round the neck, from which seems to have depended six painted white 

 and red tags, four on the breast, and one behind each shoulder. The fillet 

 over the forehead is painted in alternate red and white sections. The skin 

 of the forehead and nose, the region around the mouth, the lower parts of 

 the ears, and the half-seen eyeballs, are painted the same dead white ; the 

 rest of the doll has been painted a deej) red, much of which has worn off. 

 Two banded bent arms can be traced down the sides and upon the breasts, 

 ending in two white spots for hands. An attempt has been made to sig. 

 nify the left arm by a slight relief. The head has the Astec monument 

 look, there being nothing but backhead and forehead. The eyes are half 

 closed, and the upper teeth exposed by the drawing back of the upper lip. 

 This gives the impression that it was intended to represent a corpse or 



