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XII. Sanitary cooking. Mrs. H. Fauqnliar. 



XIII. Natural resources of Loudoun County, Ya. ^\m. L. O. T:ill)()tt. 



XIV. Pathological chart. Mrs. L. O. Talliott. 



XV. Flora fers^s fauna; insectivorous plants. Mrs. Lydia Diller Zell. 

 XVI. Observations in meteorology and ornithology. Mrs. Louise Stephenson. 

 XVII. Motherhood. Mrs. Harriett Lincoln C^oolidge. 

 XVIII. Remarks on a collection from Koptos recently received from Mr. I'liudcrs- 

 Petrie. Mrs. Sara Y. Stephenson. 

 XIX. Principles of inference. Miss Ellen Hayes. 

 XX. Science of languages. Helen L. Webster, Ph. D. 

 XXI. Memoir of Mrs. Asai)h Hall. Mrs. Horatio King. 

 XXII. Ontlino for study in botany. Mrs. Ellen Weir Cathcart. 

 XXIII. Mosses. Mrs. Elizabeth G. Brittou. 



LIST OF PAPERS ENTERED TO RE READ AT THE MEETINO OF THE 

 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IN APRIL, 1895. 



I. On some variations in the genus Encope. J'rof A- Agassiz and W. McM. 



Woodworth. 

 II. Notes on the Florida reef. Prof. A. Agassiz. 



III. The progress of the publications on tbe expedition of ISitl of the U. S. Fish 



Commission steamer Albatross, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, command- 

 ing. Prof. A. Agassiz. 



IV. On soil bacteria. M. P. Ravenel (introduced by Dr. ,J. S. Biliings). 

 V. A linkage showing the laws of the refraction of light. A. M. Mayer. 



VI. On the color relations of atoms, ions, and molecules. M. Carey Lea. 

 VII. Mechanical interpretation of the variations of latitude. R. S. Woodward 

 (introduced by S. C. Chandler). 

 VIII. On a new determination of the nutation-constant, and some allied topics. 

 S. C. Chandler. 

 IX. On the secular motion of a free magnetic needle. L. A. Bauer (introduced 

 by Prof. Cleveland Abbe). 

 X. On the composition of expired air, and its etfect upon animal life. Dr. J. S. 

 Billings. 

 XL Systematic catalogue of European fishes. Dr. Theodore Gill. 

 XII. The extinct Cetacea of North America. Prof. E. D. Cope. 



XIII. On the application of a percentage method in the study of tin; distriliuticm 



of oceanic fishes. Dr. G. Brown (Joode. 



A. Definition of eleven faunas and two subfaunas of deep-sea fishes. 



B. The relationships and origin of the Caribbeo-Mexican and Mediter- 

 ranean snbfaunas. 



XIV. On the two isomeric chlorides of ortho-sulpho-benzoic acid. Ira Remsen. 

 XV. On some compounds containing two halogen atoms in combiuation with 



nitrogen. Ira Remsen. 

 XVI. Presentation of the Watson medal to Mr. Seth C. Chandler, for his rescarcLes 

 on the variation of latitudes anil on varialde stars, and for his other works 

 in astronomy. 

 XVII. Biographical memoir of Dr. Lewis M. Rutherfnrd. B. A. Gould. 

 XV^III. Relation of .Inpiter's orbit to the mean plane of four hniidied and one minor 

 l)lanet orbits. H. A. Newton. 

 XIX. Orbit of JVIiss Mitchell's comet, 1847, VI, H.A.Newton. 



