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versations with the chiefs and warriors. The Navajo In- 

 dians, for instance, hold a part of the tribe in slavery. These 

 slave Indiansalone bear burdens. Major Powell was deceived 

 in supposing that his carriers were genuine Navajos. They 

 were Navajo slaves; and his report of his having induced 

 the aristocratic JSTavajos to tote his luggage was received 

 from the mouth of Gen'l Kane with a good-natured amused 

 derision. He saw the slave of a Navajo Chief with the tea 

 tares of another tribe ; yet the slave was born in the Navajo 

 lodges and was called a Navajo. 



Gen. Kane stated as a law that when a strong race con- 

 quers a weak one it permits the vulgar part of the weak 

 race to survive, enslaves it and incorporates it more or less 

 completely with the aristocratic part of the vanquished tribe. 

 Natural laws aid in this process. The aristocratic female 

 part of a tribe are more exposed to syphilism, and the aristo- 

 cratic warriors and chiefs more exposed in battle than the 

 common Indians. 



Pending nominations from 715 to 735 were read and Nos. 

 733 and 735 postponed. 



The ballot-boxes being scrutinized by the presiding officer 

 the following gentlemen were declared to be duly elected 

 members of the American Philosophical Society : 

 Sir William Thompson, of England. 

 Mr. A. R. Wallace, of England. 

 _ Mr. Phillip Lutly Selater, Secretary of the Zoological So- 

 ciety, London. 



Sir Henry Thompson, M. D., Professor of Surgery in the 

 University Hospital, London. 



M. Edouard Dupont, Director of the R. Museum of Na- 

 tural History, Brussels. 

 Baron Selys de Longchamps, of Liege. 

 M. Theodore M. Gougain, of Bayeaux, Calvados, France. 

 M. Henri de Saussure, of Geneva. 

 Sig. Giovanni Capellini, of Bologna. 

 Sig. Giovanni Battista Rossi, of Rome. 

 Sig. Prof. Palmieri, of the Observatory on Mt. Vesuvius. 



