2G8 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



EVENINIi SESSION. 



1. The Papal aud the Iinporiul electoral colleges. J*rol'. E. Emerton, llaivaid Uni- 



versity. 



2. The first committee of public safety: Its organization, policy, and fall. Prof. 



Henry E. Bourne, College for Women, Western. Reserve l^niversitj', Cleveland. 



3. The Quebec bill and the Anieri<an Revolution Asst Prof. Victor Coffin, Univer- 



sity of Wisconsin. 



4. The historical archives of the State Department. Andrew Hussey Allen, chief of 



Bureau of Rolls and Library, Department of State, Washington, D. C. 



5. The German Emperor. Prof. Richard Hudson, University of Michigan. 



Friday, December 28. 



MORNING SESSION. 



1. Appeals from Rhode Island courts to the King in coTincil. Harold D. Hazeltine, 



Brown University. 



2. Rhode Island and the impost of 1781. Frank Greene Bates, Cornell University. 



3. The constitutional controversy in Rhode Island in 1841. Arthur May Mowry, 



Harvard University. 



4. Party struggles over the Pennsylvania Constitution, 177.5-1790. Samuel B. Hard- 



ing, Harvard University. 



5. Pennsylvania Germans: Their language, manners, history, and customs. S. M. 



Sener, Lancaster, Pa. 



6. Evolution of township government in Ohio. James A. W^ilgus, Ohio University, 



Columbus. 



7. The retention of the western posts by the British after 1783. I'rof. A- C. 



McLaughlin, University of Michigan. 



8. Existing autographs of Christopher Columbus. William E. Curtis, Washington, 



D. C. 



EVENING SESSION. 



1. Mountains aud history. Prof. Edmund K. Alden, Packer Institute, Brooklyn. 



2. Causes and conse(iueuces of the party revolution of 1800. Prof. Anson D. Morse, 



Amherst College. 



3. The tennis court oath. Prof. James H. Robinson, University of Peruisylvania. 



4. The Royal Society of Canada and its associated historical societies. .1. G. Bonri- 



uot, C. M. G., F. R. S. C, clerk of the Canadian House of Commons. 



5. What the United States Government has done for history. A. Howard Clark, 



U. S. National Museum. 



PAPERS READ AT THE MEETIN(^ OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE CLUB, 



JANUARY 3, 1895. 



I. How to observe birds. Miss Florence A. Merriam. 

 II. Women in science. Mrs. Rosa S. Eigenmaun. (Read by Mrs. Horatio King.) 



III. Recent excavations in Greece. Mrs. M. E. Boyce. (Read by Mrs. Mark 



Harrington.) 



IV. Parasitic fungi on epidermis. Dr. Anna Searing. 



V. (a) Trichomes, {b) Seeds, (c) Wild flowers of Illinois. Mrs. M. M. Boyce. 

 VI. The flower with iron mask. Miss E. .1. Has Brouck. (Read by Miss Her- 



schell Main.) 

 VII. Seaside studies. Mrs. L. O. Talbott. 

 VIII. Algje outline. Miss Cora H. Clarke. 

 IX. Las Vegas. Mrs. M. Salazar. Read by Miss Isabel Ijeninan. 

 X. Zinc mine in New Jersey. Miss .1. Husson. 

 XL (Geological formation of Hyde Park, Mass. Miss Ella F. Boyd. 



