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The amendments to the by-laws, as proposed at the 

 last regular meeting, were adopted. 



The president appointed Messrs. Stevenson, Dwight, 

 Elsworth and Arnold, committee on museum and library. 



DECEMBER 4, 1833— FIFTEENTH REGULAR MEETING. 



J. Elmendorf, D.D., president, in the chair; thirty- 

 five members and two hundred guests present. 



Mr. E. J. Miller, of Albany, N. Y., gave an address on 

 " London Stone," of which the following is an abstract : 



The American traveler approaching London, first 

 catches sight of objects of familiar appearance, the 

 dome of St. Paul's and the tower of London — made 

 familiar by publications, pictures, &c. Going from St. 

 Paul's to the tower by a straight road, he passes many 

 antiquities; and passing on he will come to a stone 

 monument with an opening near its top, this opening 

 containing a small stone, little larger than a man's head. 

 We can learn all about St. Paul's, the Tower, and hun- 

 dreds of other notable things, but why, when and by 

 whom was this stone, known as the l London Stone, ' 

 erected % 



It has not always occupied its present position, 

 where it has stood only eighty-five years, and is guarded 

 now by iron work from possible injury. 



No record of this monument exists — no print or 

 description of its extent, except by Hutton, a printer, 

 who jotted down everything that came to his notice, 

 and who visited the spot. He gives the dimensions as 

 about four feet high and two feet broad. 



Whether it is a Roman milestone marking the con- 

 verging point of some fifteen roads leading out of Lon- 

 don, the corner stone of a heathen temple, or was set up 

 in the public meeting place of the people, were hypoth- 

 eses supported by an avalanche of antiquarian lore. 



