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the West. Their first seat was in !N"orth Carolina. Brainard 

 reported that Tutelos, Iroquois and Delawares lived to- 

 gether at Shamokin, Pa., speaking three entirely different 

 languages. The syntactical position of the personal pronoun 

 before, after, or between any two syllables of the verb allies 

 the Tutelo language with the two dialects of the Dahcotah, 

 and separates it from all the other Indian dialects. But 

 Tutelo seems to be older than the Dahcotah. So also Huron 

 (Quebec) was older than Iroquois (Six Nations); and Dela- 

 ware older than Chippevvay. It looks as if the movement 

 was from east to west, and not from west to east. 



Repeated questions from the members present elicited 

 many curious and interesting personal details from Mr. 

 Hale, who hopes to have before long a memoir ready for 

 publication. 



Pending nominations 885 to 892, were read. 



The Minutes of a special meeting of the Board of Officers 

 and Members in Council were read, and the claim for the 

 Magellanic premium was referred to the Committee ap- 

 pointed at the last meeting of the Society. 



The Report of the Trustees of the Building Fund was 

 read, dated December 16, 1879, by which it appeared that 

 the receipts since January 30, 1877, had amounted to 

 $2882.04; and that the Fund now consists of assets to the 

 value of $12,586.50. Signed, Benj. V. Marsh, Treasurer; 

 Eli K. Price, F. Fraley, auditors of the Finance Committee. 



The Report of the Finance Committee was read, and the 

 appropriations for the expenses of the ensuing year, recom- 

 mended in the report, were on motion, ordered. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



