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MINUTES. [April 21, 



From the President of the Argentine Scientific Society to be 

 represented at the International American Scientific Con- 

 gress to be held at Buenos Aires from July 10-25, 19 10. 

 The decease was announced of: 



Prof. George L. Vose, at Brunswick, Me., on March 30, 1910, 

 set. 79. 



Prof. Robert Parr Whitfield, at New York, on April 6, 1910, 

 ast. 82. 

 The following papers were read : 



"The Great Japanese Embassy of i860; The Forgotten Chap- 

 ter in the History of International Amity and Commerce," 

 by Patterson DuBois, of Philadelphia. 



" The Government of the United States in Theory and Prac- 

 tice," by C. Stuart Patterson, of Philadelphia. 



" Early Greek Theories of Sound and Consonance," by Wm. 

 Romaine Newbold, Professor of Philosophy in the University 

 of Pennsylvania. 



" New Fields of German-American Research," by M. D. 

 Earned, Director of the Institution of German-American Re- 

 search, University of Pennsylvania. 



" The Real Meaning of the Controversy concerning Pragma- 

 tism," by Albert Schinz, Associate Professor of French Eiter- 

 ature in Bryn Mawr College, Pa. (Introduced by Mr. Har- 

 rison S. Morris.) 



" Magical Observances in the Hindu Epic," by E. Washburn 

 Hopkins, Professor of Sanskrit in Yale University, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



" The Bearded Venus," by Morris Jastrow, Jr., Professor of 

 Semitic Languages in the University of Pennsylvania. 



" Roman Mysticism in the Fourteenth Century," by Kuno 

 Francke, Curator of the Germanic Museum, Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Cambridge. 



" A German Monk of the Eleventh Century," by A. C. How- 

 land, Assistant Professor of Mediaeval History in the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. (Introduced by Professor Edward 

 P. C"he>Tiey.) 



