474 Memorial of George Brnivn Goode. 



PHYSIOLOGY, PHARMACOLOGY. 



Dr. William Holme Van Buren, U. S. A. On the Effects of Large 

 Doses of Sulphate of Quinine on the Human System as a Remedial 

 Agent. 



Prof. John Richard Woodcock Dunbar of Maryland. On the Impor- 

 tance of Physiology as a Branch of General Education. 



ANTHROPOLOGY, PHILOLOGY. 



James Chamberlain Pickett, United States charge d'affaires to Peru. 

 Remarkable Ruins in the Province of Chachapo3'as, Peru. 



George Edward Cha^e, U. vS. A., Pensacola, Florida. A Method of 

 Settling the Orthography and Orthoepy of the English lyanguage. 



ADMINISTRATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, STATISTICS, ETC. 



Rev. Hector Humphreys, D. D., president of St. John's College, 

 Annapolis, Maryland. On the Economy of Science as Relating to the 

 Government. 



Prof. Edward Foreman, of Baltimore. On Domestic Exchanges in 

 Natural History and Geology. 



Prof. Thomas Sewall, M. D., of Washington. On the Design of the 

 Medical Department of the National Institute. 



Prof. Robert Maskell Patterson of Philadelphia. On a method of 

 determining the center of population of a country. 



POLITICAL ECONOMY, HISTORY, ETC. 



Prof. George Tucker of the University of Virginia. On the Dangers 

 most to be Guarded Against in the Future Progress of the United States. 



Francis Joseph Grund of Philadelphia. On the Modern Historical 

 Schools of F'rance and Germany, and the Philosophy of History. 



Prof. Walter Rogers Johnson of Philadelphia. On the Scientific Char- 

 acter and Researches of the late James Smithson. 



Hon. Alexander Hill Everett of Massachusetts. On the Moral Ten- 

 dency of the Science and Eearning of the Past and Present Centuries. 



Francis Eieber, EE. D., of South Carolina. Remarks on Public 

 Institutions. 



At the meeting of the Association of American Geologists, held in 

 Washington in the following month, out of thirty-one formal papers read, 

 while twenty-five were mostly geological or paleontological, four related 

 to zoology and two to chemistry or ph5'sics. 



It was doubtless intended that the first atuuial meeting or congress of 

 the National Institution should be followed by a similar gathering each 

 year. This was clearly indicated in Senator Walker's introductory 

 address, in which the opinion is forcibly expressed that the National 



