1895.] 



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fiir Geschichte und Alterthumskunde, Erfurt, Prussia (142- 

 147); Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein des Eeg.-Bez. Frank- 

 furt a. O., Prussia (143, 146, 147); K. Leop. Carol. Akademie, 

 Halle a. S., Prussia (147) ; Yerein fiir Erdkunde, Metz, Ger- 

 many (147) ; Naturwissenscliaftliche Yerein, Eegensburg, Ba- 

 varia (147); Zoologische Institut, Strassburg, Germany (147); 

 Yerein fiir Yaterlandische Naturkunde in Wiirtternberg, 

 Stuttgart (147) ; Schweiz. Naturforsch, Gesellscbaft, Bern, 

 Switzerland (147) ; E. Accademia dei Lincie, Eome, Italy 

 (147); Dr. Edward Pepper, Paris, France (147); Col. William 

 Ludlow, London, Eng. (147); Historical and Library Associa- 

 tion, Yonkers, N. Y. (25 pamphlets). 



Accessions to the Library were reported from the Govern- 

 ment Geologist. Adelaide, Australia; Socidte E. Malacologique 

 de Belgique, Academic E. de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgique; 

 K. B. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, Bavaria ; Natur- 

 wissenschaftliche Yerein, Osnabriick, Prussia; E. Istituto 

 Lombardo, Milan, Italy; Prof. Gabriel de Mortillet, St. Ger- 

 main en Laye, France ; Mr. Henry C. Mercer, Doylestown, 

 Pa. ; Prof. Edmund J. James, Philadelphia ; Department of 

 Labor, "Washington, D. C. 



The Committee appointed by the American Philosophical 

 Society for the purpose of investigating the methods in use 

 for the study of documents presented the following report : 



Organization was effected by the election of Dr. Frazer Chairman. 



It was resolved that the future necessary business of the Committee 

 should be transacted by correspondence, and that the votes on all impor- 

 tant matters should be taken in this way, where personal meetings were 

 difficult. 



It was resolved at the outset of our work that the portion of it which 

 related to handwriting concerned itself with the characteristics thereof 

 peculiar to the writer and their differences from the characteristics of other 

 writers, but we specifically disclaim any connection between this study 

 based on pure inductive methods and the so-called science of Graphology 

 which attempts to read in written characters the moral peculiarities of 

 the writer. 



It was informally agreed that provisionally the Committee adopt the 

 classification of the whole subject into " Bibliotics " or that which per- 

 tains to the study of records of any kind transmitting ideas from man to 



