MAR 3 1900 



PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PniLABElPHU FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXXVIII. Decembee, 1899. No. 16a. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



Stated Meeting, October 6, 1899 133 



Historical Resume of the Efforts Made to Demonstrate the Practicability 



of the Reaction Breakwater at Aransas Pass, Tex., with Results to 



February, 1899. By Lewis M. Haupt (with three plates) 135 



Genealogical Trees of Butterflies. By A. Rahcliffe Grote, A.M 147 



Stated Meeting, October 20, 1899 154 



Stated Meeting, November 3, 1899 155 



Stated Meeting, November 17, 1899. 156 



Note3 on Some Birds of Santa Clara County, California. By John 



Van Denbuegh 157 



Some Passamaquoddy Witchcraft Tales. By J. Dyneley Peince, 



Ph.D 181 



Stated Meeting, December 1, 1899 189 



Stated Meeting, December 15, 1899 190 



Index 193 



List of Members 197 



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1899. 



