40 JOURNAL OF ELISHA MITCHELL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 



FORTY-FOURTH MEETING. 



Stated Meeting. Person Hall, April 2, 1889. 



Prof. Holmes presided in the absence of Prof Graves, the Resident Vice- 

 President. The papers presented were as follows: 



15. A Primitive Reaping Machine. Prof Alexander gave an acconnt of 

 this machine described by Palladiiis, a Roman writer on Agriculture, as in 

 use among the ancient Gauls. 



16. The Consumption and Waste of the World's Resources. Dr. Venable 

 called attention in this paper to the rapid consumption of the world's availa- 

 ble supply of coal and petroleum, and of the great waste of many valuable 

 metals. 



17. Prof Holmes gave a paper on the use of the microscope in Geology 

 and Mineralogy, in which, were described several forms of microscopes, and 

 particularly the one recently manufactured for the University by the Bausch 

 & Lomb Optical Company, of Rochester, X. Y. 



The Secretary reported three additional exchanges and seventy-five books 

 and pamphlets received. 



FORTY-FIFTH MEETING. 



Annual Meeting. May 4, 1889. 



In the absence of the Secretary and Treasurer, and because of the illness 

 of tlie Vice-President, no reports were received from these officers. 

 The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 



President H. T. Bahnson, M. D Salem. 



Vice-President H. B. Battle, Ph. D Raleigh. 



Resident Vice-President J. A. Holmes, B. Sc Chapel Hill. 



Corresponding Sec. and Treas F. P. Venable, Ph. D Chapel Hill. 



Recording Sec. and Librarian J. W. Gore, C. and M. E Chapel Hill. 



