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Vol. XXXIV. January, 1895. No. 147. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Stated Meeting, January 4, 1S95 1 



Stated Meeting, January 18, 1895 3 



Stated Meeting, February 1, 1895 6 



Stated Meeting, February 15, 1895 8 



The Palis Book Exhibition of 1894. By J. O. Rosengarten 12 



Horologiutn Achaz (Christophorus Schissler, Arlifex), (with four 



plates). By Julius F. Sachse 31 



Salishan Texts. By Fram Boas 31 



The Varying Ratio between Gold and Silver. By Frederick Prime . 49 



The Significance of the Jugal Arch. By Daniel Denison Blade 50 



A Matter of Priority. By Patterson Du, Bois 67 



The Protohistoric Ethnography of Western Asia. By Daniel O. 



Brinton, M.D 71 



Biographical Sketch of the Hon. Thomas H. Dudley, of Camden, 



N. J. (with one plate). By William John Potts 102 



Fourth Contribution to the Marine Fauna of the Miocene Period of 



the United States (with one plate). By E. D. Cope 135 



Stated Meeting, March 1, 1895 155 



Stated Meeting, March 15, 1895 157 



Stated Meeting, April 5, 1895 160 



Stated Meeting, April 19, 1895 165 



Stated Meeting, May 3, 1895 168 



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