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man, or the materials with which they have been made; "Gram- 

 mapheny," or the study of written characters, and " Plassopheny,'' or 

 the method for detecting fraud or falsiQcation. 



The stated business of the meeting being the report of the 

 Finance Comniittee of the Society, the report was read and 

 approved, and the appropriations for the ensuing year recom- 

 mended therein were granted. 



The election of new members being in order, the Chair 

 appointed the following Tellers: Mr. Price, Dr. Morris, Dr. 

 Frazer, and a recess was taken to allow the casting of ballots. 



A paper by Dr. S. P. Sharpies was read by Dr. Frazer, 

 entitled " Notes on Photographic Testing of Inks," followed 

 by remarks by himself on the " Evidences of the Action of 

 two hands in joint signature marks " {vide ante pp. 471-473). 



Dr. Morris called attention to the photographs made of the 

 Codex Poinsett for its reproduction in fac simile under the 

 direction of Dr. Brinton, Mr. Phillips and himself. 



The original was written with three inks — one of them 

 probably of animal, the second of vegetable, and the third of 

 mineral basis. The latter, an iron ink, was so successfully 

 photographed that many words almost illegible in the original 

 are quite easily made out in the photographs. 



Eemarks on these communications were made by Messrs. 

 Edmunds, Brinton, Mitchell and others. 



Pending nominations 1832 and 1333 were read. 



On motion, the letter of the Rev. Mr. Foggo was referred to 

 the Secretaries, with directions to issue him a second diploma 

 marked ''duplicate." 



Letters from Secretary Burpee, of Ottawa, and Superinten- 

 dent Thomas, of Chicago, were referred to the Secretaries with 

 power to act. 



Treasurer Price ofifered the following, which was unani- 

 mously adopted : 



Resolved, That the Treasurer and Librarian be directed to prepare two 

 days before the election, to be held on the third day of January, 1896, an 

 alphabetical check list of all the members who shall appear to be entitled 



