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associations. (4) By procuring the appointment of Na- 

 tional and State Commissions to consider and report on 

 the subject. (5) By personally adopting in our corre- 

 spondence the spellings recommended by the American 

 Philological Association. (6) By freely using the pub- 

 lic press toward setting before the public the objects and 

 merits of the proposed reform. (7) By teaching the 

 children in the jpublic schools to read from a phonetic text, 

 (8) By cherishing the pluck and aggressiveness of ear- 

 nest reformers. 



Prof. E. S. Morse spoke of the Japanese language, 

 showing that students there had to surmount even greater 

 obstacles than obtain in the present English system. 



Mr. James Kimball exhibited and explained AVilson's 

 Ozone Generator and Diffuser. This apparatus is intended 

 to be used in destroying the impurities in the air of close 

 and poorly ventilated rooms, also the noxious emanations 

 produced by the decomposition of animal and vegetable 

 substances. It is a machine holding six small cups partly 

 filled with water, a stick of prepared phosphorus being 

 jDlaced in each cup. Upon the ignition of the phosphorus 

 a cover of porous porcelain is placed over the cups and 

 the apparatus is prepared to do its w^ork. 



Kegular Meeting, Monday, February 16, 1880. 



President in the chair. Records read. Donations 

 and correspondence announced. 



At an adjournment on Tuesday, Feb. 17, Charles Top- 

 pan, of Salem, was elected a member. 



