6 JOURNAL OF THE 



National History Lecture Room, 

 October iSth, 1884. 



1. Report on the British and American Association Meetings 



for 1884. ...J. W. Gore. 



2. Constituents of the Yopon Leaf, F. P. Venable. 



3. Transpiration of Water by Plants, F. P. Venable. 



4. Flora of Angola Bay, J. A. HoLMES, 



December ^th, 1884. 



5. Recent Progress in Engineering, .. ..J. W. Gore. 



6. Analysis of Crystals of Dog-tooth Spar, W. B. PHILLIPS. 



7. Analysis of Salt-boiler Deposit, W. B. Phillips. 



8. Analysis of Zinc Furnace Deposit, E. A. de SCHWEINITZ. 



9. Analysis of Specular Iron Ore from Forsyth county, L H. Manning. 



10. Examination of some Chapel Hill well-waters, ..J. C. Roberts. 



February ']th, 1 88 5. 



11. Use of Balloons in Meteorology, J. \V. GoRE. 



12. Mercurous Hypophosphite, . ...E. A. de SCHWEINITZ. 



13. Recent Progress in the Liquefaction of Gases,. F. P. Venable. 



14. The Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi, ---J. A. Holmes. 



15. The True Source of the Mississippi, .F. P. Venable. 



16. Forty Solutions of the " Pons Asinorum," Chas. Phillips. 



17. Analysis of Spiegeleisen, .. iNL\x. Jackson. 



18. Analysis of Kaolin, ... ..1 L H. Manning. 



ig. Analysis of Red Hematite from Forsyth county. A. E. WiLSON. 



March ']lh, 1885. 



20. Sir Wm. Thomson's Theory of Luminiferous Ether, J. L Love. 



21. Meteorological Report for February, F. P. Venable. 



22. A Botanical Note, M. E. Hyams. 



23. Progress in Astronomy,.. R. H. Graves. 



24. Clay-eating, F. P. Venable. 



25. Occurrence of Malic and Citric Acids in Pea-nuts, ..E. A. DE SCHWEINITZ. 



26. Heptyl-benzol, ... ._ F. P. Venable. 



27. Algebra and Acid Phosphates,.... W. B. Phillips. 



April 25M, 1885. 



28. Arctic Exploration, J. W. Gore. 



29. Observation of Thunder-storms by Balloon, F. P. Venable. 



30. A (so-called) Petrified Human Body, - - - J . A. Holmes. 



31. Peculiar Animal and Plant Life in Geology, ..J. A. Holmes. 



32. Additions to Catalogue of North Carolina Plants, .. M. E. Hyams. 



33. Character of the Border Rocks of North Carolina Triassic, J. A. Holmes. 



34. Trap Rocks in Triassic Sand Stone, J. A. Holmes. 



35. Distribution of Rhododendrom in North Carolina, J. A. Holmes. 



36. Quantitative Determination of Sugar, J. L. Howe. 



37. Meteorology of Chapel Hill for the years i88o-'84, F. P. Venable. 



