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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PHILADELPHIA 

 FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE 



Vol. XLIII. April, 1904. No. 176. 



General Meeting, April 7, 8 arid 9, 1904, 



April 7.— Morning Session, 10 A.M. 



President Smith in the Chair. 



The President opened the General Meeting with a brief 

 Address of Welcome. 



A letter was received from the Committee of Organiza- 

 tion of the Fourteenth International Congress of Americanists, 

 to be held in Stuttgart, August 18 to 23, 1904, inviting the 

 Society to be represented at the Congress by a delegate; and 



Also from the International Zoological Congress, to be held 

 at Berne, August 14 to 19, 1904, inviting the Society to be 

 represented by delegates at the Congress. 



On motion, the President was requested to appoint delegates 

 to these Congresses. 



From the President of the American Academy of PoUtical 

 and Social Science, inviting the members to attend the 

 sessions of the Academy on April 8 and 9. 



The following papers were read : 



'•' Dimethyl Racemic Acid, Its Synthesis and Derivatives/'' 

 by Prof. H. F. Keller, of Philadelphia. Discussed by Prof. 

 George F. Barker. 



"The Role of Carbon,'^ by Prof. Albert B. Prescott, of Ann 

 Arbor, Mich. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XLIII. 170. G. PRINTED MAY 18. 1004 



