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Vol. XXXIV. December, 1895. No. 149. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Stated Meeting, May 17, 1895 335 



Stated Meeting, Septeinier 6, 1895 340 



Stated Meeting, September 20, 1S95 348 



Stated Meeting, October 4, 1895 351 



Stated Meeting, October IS, 1893 353 



Memoir of James E. Rhoads, M.D., LL.D. By Dr. Henry Harts- 

 home » 854 



Obituary Notice of Henry Coppee, LL.D. (with one plate). By J. 



G. Rosengarten 357 



Obituary Notice of Dr. William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger 



(with one plate). By Dr. D. O. Brinton 361 



In Memory of Edward Yorke Macauley, U. S. N. (with one plate). 



By Persifor Frazer Rfi4 



The Yardley Fault (with three plates). By Benjamin Smith Lyman. 381 



On Apatela. By A. Radcliffe Orote, A.M. 388 



Memoir of P. F. Rothermel (wiih one plate). By Joseph O. Rosen- 

 garten 393 



Jasper and Stalagmite Quarried by Indians in the Wyandotte Cave. 



By H. C. Mercer 396 



Some Words from the Andagueda Dialect of the Choco Stock. By 



Daniel G. Brinton, M D 401 



The Matagalpan Linguistic Stock of Central America. By Daniel 



G. Brinton, M.I) 403 



Tiie Hypenoid Moths and Allied Groups. By A. Radcliffe Grote, A. M. 416 



The Reptilian Order Cotylosauria (with three plates). By E. 7). Cope. 436 

 On Some Plistocene Mammalia from Petite Anse, La. (wiih three 



plates). By E. D. Cope 458 



An Early Essay on Proportional Representation. By Edmund J. 



James 468 



Notes on Photographic Testing of Inks. By 8. P. Sharpies 471 



Evidences of the action of two hands in joint signature marks (with 



one plate). By Persifor Frazer 473 



Stated Meeting, November 1, 1895 477 



Stated Meeting, November 15, 1895 . 479 



Stated Meeting, December 6, 1895 484 



Stated Meeting, December 20, 1895 488 



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