1885.] -^'^ 



The University of Micliigan was ordered to be placed on 

 the list of exchanges, and as full a set as possible of the 

 Society's Proceedings and Transactions ordered to be made up 

 and sent to its Library. 



Letters were received from members subscribing to the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Society to be issued quarterly hereafter. 



The death of Herman Kolbe, of Leipzig, was announced as 

 having taken place on November 26, 1884, aged 66 years. 



The President announced that he had appointed Dr. J. T. 

 Rothrock, to prepare an obituary notice of the late Vice- 

 President, Eli K. Price, and that the appointment had been 

 accepted. 



Prof. Dr. Hayes Agnew, M.D., read by appointment, an 

 obituary notice of the late Rev. Elias R. Beadle. 



Rev. E. W. Syle, made a communication on Education in 

 China. 



Prof. E. D. Cope, made a communication on the Systematic 

 position of the Pterichtys in the Red Sandstone, illustrating 

 his remarks with specimens. 



Dr. D. Gr. Brinton presented a communication from Miss 

 Abby L. Alger (of Boston), entitled " A Collection of Words 

 and Phrases from the Passamaquoddy Tongue," also a com- 

 munication from Dr. Otto Stoll (of Ziirich), entitled " Supple- 

 mentary Remarks to the Grammar of the Cakchiquel Lan- 

 guage, edited by Dr. Brinton in the Proceedings of the Ameri- 

 can Philosophical Society." 



Mr. Phillips presented a further note on the letter Zed ; 

 "Captain R. C. Temple, of Ambala, Panj^b, India, editor 

 'PanjSb notes and queries' writes me: 'If Zed (as I think 

 with Isaac Taylor) is really equivalent to tsadde, then it 

 would bear the same value as the Arabic sad or zad ; this 

 if spoken of by Arabs specifically, would be El-zad, which 

 by a well known euphonic law in Arabic would be pronounced 

 as ezzdd ; perhaps the original of the word izzard.' 



"Another correspondent has been good enough to call to my 

 attention that in a paper read at the October meeting, 1876, 

 of the Spelling Reform Association, Prof. Haldeman, speak- 



