yAN 29 1894 



*^"" PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXXI. July to December, 1893. No. 142. 



' TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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StaUd Meeting, Septemher 1, 1893 233 



Stated Meeting, September 15, 1S9S 242 



Slated Meeting, October 6, 1893 247 



Stated Meeting, October 20, 1893 252 



A Notice of William Bartoa Rogers. By W. 8. W. Ruschenberger, 



31. D 254 



The Native Calendar of Central America and Mexico. A Study 



in Linguistics and Symbolism By Daniel G. Brinton, M.D 258 



The Great Mesozoic Fault in New Jersey (with one plate). By 



Benjamin Smith Lyman 314 



On the genus Tomiopsis. By E. D. Cope 317 



The Conservation of Osmazome in Roasting (with two figures). By 



B. Meade Bache 318 



A Vocabulary of the Nanticoke Dialect. By Daniel O. Brinton, 



M.D 325 



Second Addition to the Knowledge of the Batrachia and Reptilia 



of Costa Rica. By E. D. Cope 333 



Stated Meeting, November 3, 1893 348 



Stated Meeting, November 17, 1893 351 



Stated Meeting, December 1, 1893 355 



Stated Meeting, December 15, 1893 356 



Obituary Notice of Joseph Zentmayer (with one plate). By Charles 



A. Oliver, 3I.D 358 



Volumes and Dates of Proceedings and Transactions of the Amer- 

 ican Philosophical Society 365 



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