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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



a.merican philosophical society,, 



held at phiiadeiphia, lor promoting usepl'l knowledge. 



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Vol. XXXVI. ^i.^'g., Mat, 1897. • No, 155, 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Stated Meeting, February 19, 1897 141 



Stated Meeting, March 5, 1897 , 142 



Stated Meeting, March 19, 1897 143 



The Insulating Medium Surrounding a Conductor, the 

 Real Path of its Current (illustrated). By Edwin J. 



Houston, Ph.D., and A. E. Kennelly, Sc.D 144 



Discussion l'3'O 



Stated Meeting, April 2, 1897 175 



Stated Meeting, April 2S, 1897 178 



Relation of the Pentagonal Dodecahedron Found Near 

 Marietta, Ohio, to Shamanism. B}^ J. Cheston Morris, 



M.D 179 



Remarks on Shamanism. By Frank Hamilton Cushing. . 183 



Stated Meeting, May 7, 1897 .■ 192 



Australian Rock Carvings (with one plate). By R. H. 



Mathews, L.S 195 



On the Transitive Substitution Groups that are Simply Iso- 

 morphic to the Svmmetric or the Alternating Group of 



Degree Six. By <&. A. Miller, Ph.D 208 



Stated Meeting, May 13, 1897 216 



Geology of the Paleozoic Area of Arkansas South of the 

 Novaculite Region (illustrated). By George H. Ashley, 



Ph.D 217 



Stated Meeting, May 21, 1897 319 



International Arbitration. By Hon. George F. Edmunds. . 320 



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