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A letter was read from the Comite de 1' Exposition Inter- 

 national de I'Art et de la Paix, inviting the Societv to par- 

 ticipate in the International Exposition, to be held at Lisbon 

 in May, on the anniversary of the Conference at The Hague. 

 The decease was anounced of 



Mr. Paul Leicester Ford, at New York, on May 8, aged 37. 

 President Henry Morton at Hobolcen, on May 9, aged 65. 

 Mr. Stewart Culin read a paper on the Indians of the 

 Southwestern United States. 



