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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



The Late John Bernhardt Smith, 

 Professor of Entomology at Rutgers College and State Entomologist of New Jersey. 



fifty papers, but a statement of some 

 of the subjects may be of interest as 

 showing the directions in which re- 

 search work is now being conducted. 



At the first session, papers were pre- 

 sented bearing on historical, political 

 and philological subjects, for the Philo- 

 sophical Society includes these also in 

 its scope. This aspect of its work was 

 indeed emphasized at the recent meet- 

 ing, as the Henry M. Phillips prize of 

 $2,000 was conferred on Charles H. 

 Burr, Esq., for an essay on the treaty- 

 mak'ng power of the United States, and 



at the dinner, the principal address was 

 made by Professor Moore, who in the 

 usual eulogy of Franklin spoke of his 

 work in diplomacy. 



On the second day, the session opened 

 with two papers on the inheritance of 

 feeble-mindedness and epilepsy, by Dr. 

 Goddard and Dr. Weeks, who have ob- 

 tained results of scientific and practical 

 importance. Dr. Stockard described 

 for the first time experiments on the 

 control of ehibryonic develoiunent, 

 showing that when guinea-pigs are alco- 

 holized, the offspring are greatly af- 



