vi MINUTES. 



" Control of Commerce in War Time," by William E. Lingel- 



bach, Professor of Modern European History, University of 



Pennsylvania. 

 " The Influence of Russian Political Parties on Domestic and 



International Questions," by Alexander Petrunkevitch, Ph.D., 



Professor of Zoology, Yale University. 

 " Problems of War Finance," by Thomas S. Adams, Ph.D., 



Professor of Political Economy, Yale University. 

 *' Control of Railroads of the United States," by Emory R. 



Johnson, Sc.D., Professor of Transportation and Commerce, 



University of Pennsylvania. 

 " The Sanitation of Camps," by Col. Frederick F. Russell, ]\Ied- 



ical Corps, U. S. A. 



Friday, April ip. 



Morning Session, 10:30 o'clock. 



J. G. RosENGARTEN, LL.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Frank Dawson Adams, a recently elected member, sub- 

 scribed the Laws and was admitted into the Society. 

 The following papers were read : 



"The Art of George Catlin," by Edwin Swift Balch, A.B., of 

 Philadelphia (see p. 144), which was discussed by Dr. Hol- 

 land. 



'' Surgical Shock," by William T. Porter, M.D., LL.D., Pro- 

 fessor of Comparative Physiology, Harvard .University, 

 which was discussed by Dr. Keen. 



" The Relations of French and American Thought in the i8th 

 and 19th Centuries," by Albert Schinz, A.M., Ph.D., Pro- 

 fessor of French Literature, Smith College, Northampton, 

 Mass. 



*' Type-writer Keyboards ; An Inquiry for Some Rational 

 Ones," by Charles R. Lanman, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of 

 Sanskrit, Harvard University. 



" Changing of the Sex-Ratio of the Rat," by Helen D. King, 

 Associate Professor of Embryology, Wistar Institute, Phila- 

 delphia, which was discussed by Prof. Jennings. 



