MITCHELL — EARTH CLOSETS. 
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Moses, when first recommended. It is scarcely necessary 
f o adduce anything further in favor of a practice so sound 
that it is in general use by the feline tribe who most re^ 
quire it. 
Tuesday, 12th February , 1867. 
The Hon. Henry Stuart Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D., Presi- 
dent, in the Chair. 
Walter Darwent, Esq., C.E., was elected a Member. 
Robert Swift, Esq., 1618 Locust-street, Philadelphia, 
U. S., was elected a Corresponding Member. 
The following donations were announced : — > 
1. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. No. 
86. Presented by R. J. Lechmere Guppy, Esq., P.G.S. 
2. The “ Geologist” for December 1862. Presented by 
R. J. Lechmere Guppy, Esq., P..G.S. 
Also the following, not previously announced : — * 
“ A Week at Port-Royal.” By the Hon. Richard Hill. 
Presented by the Author. 
The President read the following Obituary Notice of Dr. 
Antoine Leotaud : — - 
It is with deep sorrow that I have to announce to the 
Association the death of one of its most respected members. 
You are all aware that it is Dr. Leotaud to whom I allude. 
Dr. Leotaud was born in this Island in 1814. He was 
educated in Prance and studied medicine in Paris, where 
he took the degree of M.D. Since his return to his native 
country Dr. Leotaud’ s life was devoted to Science. Por his 
medical works he received the gold medal of the Paris So- 
ciety of Medicial Practice and that of the Medical Society 
of Ghent. His great love of the natural sciences was dis- 
