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fragments of a series of forms regularly graded like the words of the 

 preceding tables. Bou-eBe, Bou-Be, Fiu, Fieu, Pi, Fe, FaiL, FiL, 

 FiL-(4, VaL, VaLeT, FaNT, afFaNT, eNFaNT, exNFaN, afFaN, 

 aFaN, eFaN, eFoN, MeNioT, MeNeGe, MaiNaChe, G-aR-CheeN, 

 GaPwChouN, GaeChoxN, GaiChoN, GouGeaT, GouiaT, Gouia, 

 GaRCouN, GaRCoN, GaSSox\, HiL, and an abnormal form DRoLei, 

 belonging to some other series, or to a part of this series too distant to 

 appear more than this once among the French patois; in fact a word 

 bearing the same relation to the English DRoLL that FiL does to 

 FooL, that Boube does to Booby (German Bube, Boy), &c. 6ic. The 

 most interesting point of this series is the change of FiL to HiL, 

 through some lost form H'FiL or G.FiL, the reverse of which still 

 remains in FiL.G, MeNaGe, &:c. This lost form is found in other 

 languages; as in the Dshar Lesguis Caucasian KiMiR, Child, con- 

 tracted in tlungarian (as in French patois) to Gi'eR-mek, child. In 

 the Lesguis Antshong and Chunsagh, on the contrary, we have 

 TiMiR, the original, so to speak (through Ti'eR), of the French 

 patois DRoLei; as in the Georgian Suaneti we have BoBosh 

 (Imeritian Boshi) to explain the French patois BouBe, a contracted 

 repetition of the original Hebrew form BaR-BaR, the diminutive of 

 BaR, boy. 



Stated Meeting, November IS, 1S59. 



Present, eighteen members. 



Dr. Wood, President, in tlie Chair. 



Judge Carleton, a new member, was presented by Dr. Bache. 



A letter was read from Dr. W. A. Flammond, U. S. A. dated 

 Fort Mackinaw, jNlichigan, Nov. 5, 1S59, acknowledging notice 

 of his election. 



The following donations for the Library were announced: — 



Journal Franklin Institute, No. 407. (Nov.) — From the Institute, 

 African Repository, XXXV. No. IL (Nov.)— From A. C. Society. 

 Columbia College Annual Catalogue. 1859-60. — Frcm the College. 

 Inau. Addresses by T. W. D wight and G. P. Marsh. — From the same. 

 Pasigraphie mittels arabischer Zahlzeichen. Ein versuch von Moses 



Paic. Semlin, 1659. — From the Author. 

 Natural Philosophy, by B. Hobson, M. D. London Miss. Society, 



Canton, China; in Chinese, unbound. — From Dr. F. Bache. 



