Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-02-05
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The February meeting Of The Historical Socisty
Of Tennessee, occurred On Tuesday afternoon q the
Capitol.
Quite number Of contributions were inside, and
we regret that We have not room for detailed list
Among the books presented, was one from Prof.
George S. Blache, an active member Of the So
oiety, printed in the year 1852. It is the Lyons
edition Of the Materia Medica of Pedanius DiOsco-
rides, Greek writer, born in Cilioia who aOurished
in the days of Nero The FIRST edition of the Greek
text Of Dioscorides was published st Venice, 1893,
better edition was issued at Paris, 154s, and
still better one at Lyons in 1852, Of which the
copy given to tie Society is one. This copy pos
sesses unusual interest, as it contains the set Of
thirty rare engravngs, which were destroyed after
few copies had been printed.
George B. Brown, Esq, contributed 3 large num-
Der Of works. the most important Of which was
thirty volumes Of Rees' New CyoloPedia, or uni
verssl Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, published
at Philadelphia from 1903 to 1920 A really valua-
bic donation.
The Hon. John Bell contributed some thirty or
forty volumes Of public Documents am0ng which
we had the first and second volumes Of Commodore
Perry's Japan Expedition, beautifully illustrated;
Explorations for Pacific Railroad; David Dale
Ovens Geological Survey Of Wisconsin, lows, &C.;
Report Of the Superintendent Of the United States
Coast Survey, SC, Sc.
Capt E D FarnsWorth, eontributeds small section
Of branch Of the Charter Oak, Hartford, Conn. }
Also, letter from Archy Fields, half breed CherO-
kee, to Capt. Matthew Martin, Of Bedford county.
It is dated Cherokee Nation, Chiekamauga District,
June 18th, 1928.
Capt. Thomas Claiborne, Of the Mounted Rifles,
Q. s A., contributed a spoon made from the horn of
a mountain sheep, obtained near Fort Laramie, in
1858, from gal-lal-lah, Sioux or DacOtah) In
dian. The bowl Of the spoon is inches long by 81
vide, and is 80 inches deep.
Mrs. Clementine H. Holman, of this city, sent in
enc Of the epaulettes worn by Col Richard Boyd in
the battle of Talladega. Also, The bullet with
which he was wounded in the same battle. Mrs. H
also contributed various papers and manuscript
letters, formerly in the possession of her father
aud grandfather. They contain the autographs Of
Ex Governors BlOuut, MoMinn, and Carroll, and Of
Senator Grundy, Judge Mclean, &C., SC.
Mr.. Richard Horton, presented a copy Of that
rare work, known as HaywOOds Political Reflections
and Mazims. The title page is lost, but the work
was printed in North Carolina, about 1916.
Samuel Seay, Esq, presented copy Of the BY
Laws of the town of Nashville printed by Bradford,
in 1914
John N. Lea, Esq, donated a copy Of the ''Im-
partial Review and Cumberland Repository" for the
years 1906 6, Z, and 8, bound. Il was printed BY
Thomas Eastin, and is very valuable.
President A. W. Putnam handed in sundry pamph-
lets and bundle of original letters, bearing date
from 1887 to 1915, obtained from Capt. StOekley
DonelsOn, Of this county. They embrace letters
from Alex StOoEley, StockIey DOnslsOn, Capt. John
Donelson, Gen. John Coffee, Gen. Andrew Jackson,
and many others.
DR.. VIM. Darlington, of West Chester Pa, was
elected Honorary Member of the Society.