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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN" PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING ISEFl'L KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XL. December, 1901. No. 167. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Stated 'Meeting, September 26 137 



Stated Meeting, October 4 . . , 138 



The Gundungurra Language. By R. H. Mathews 140 



Notes on Pure Circulating Decimals. By C. A. M. Fennell 148 



Slated Meeting, Octobtr 18 .' 159 



Stated Meeting, November 1 160 



Record of Borings in the Sulphur Spring Valley, Arizona, and of 

 Agricultural Experiments in the same locality. By James 

 Douglas 161 



Stated Meeting, November 15 165 



Stated Meeting, December 6 165 



Explanation of the Supposed Signals from Mars of December 7 and 



8, 1900. By Percival Lowell 166 



Stated Meeting, December 20 176 



Obituary Notices of Members Deceased : 



Frederick Fraley, LL.D., President of the Society. By C. 



Stuart Patterson i 



Frederick Augustus Genth. By George F. Barker x 



Index to Volume XL xxiii 



List of Members i 



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104 South Fifth Street. 



1901. 



