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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 



HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXX. January, 1893. No. 137. 



Stated, Meeting, January 1, 1892. 

 Present, 9 members. 



ERRATA— Vol. XXIX, No. 136. 



Page 147, 35tli line from top, for N. E.^ N., read S. W.^ S. 

 Page 147, 25tli line from top, for N. 39° E., read S. 39° W. 



des Reg.-Bez. Frankfurt, Germany ; Hydrographische Amt 

 des Reiclis-Marine-Amts, Messrs. Friedlander und Sohn, 

 Berlin; Garteubaaverein, Darmstadt; Deutsche Gesellscbaft 

 fur Anthropologic, Ethnologic, etc., Munich ; Societe Hol- 

 landaise des Sciences, Harlem, Holland ; Biblioteca N. C, 

 Florence, Italy ; R. Accademia dei Lincei, Biblioteca N. C. 

 V. E., Rome ; Societe Americaine de France, Societe de Geo- 

 graphic, Redaction " Cosmos," Paris, France ; Philological 

 Society, Ca;mbridge, England ; Royal Astronomical, Meteoro- 

 logical, Geographical Societies, Lords Commissioners of the 

 Admiralty, " Nature," London ; Manchester Geographical 

 Society ; Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass. ; American 

 Statistical Association, Dr. William Elliot Griffis, Boston, 

 Mass. ; Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass, ; 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXX. 137. A. PRINTED FEB. 25, 1893. 



