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ance of the larger fungi al and near Ohio r\'le and slated that 

 fresh water alga?, including diatoms, were scarce, the collec- 

 tions of these fonns yielding only about twenty species in all. 



August 3, 1905. — Regular monthly meeting. The Com- 

 mittee on Castle Rocks reported resolutions of protest, which 

 were adopted and ordered spread upon the minutes. Lewis 

 Kirk read from a recent publication the suggestion that the 

 English language might prove the better instrument for the 

 education of the Filipinos than the Spanish language. Henry 

 L. Broomall, dissenting, gave several linguistic reasons for the 

 opinion that this idea was without foundation. Sanford 

 Omensetter presented a nest of the Scarlet Tanager. This 

 nest was built in an Osage orange hedge along a frequented 

 street in our borough and but twenty-five feet from habitations. 

 During the time the nest was occupied by the young, a cat 

 captured the female, but the male bird continued to care for 

 the brood and carried it along successfully to maturity. Addi- 

 tions to the Library : Two quarterly numbers of Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections; Britton's Manual, second edition. 



INSTITUTE NOTES. 



Last year's course of regular and adjourned meetings was 

 eminently successful. The following lectures and papers were 

 delivered before the Institute : The Sun Dial, Jacob B. Brown ; 

 Borax, Sanford Omensetter ; The Stiiicture of the Ciy stall ine 

 Rocks, F. J. Keele}' ; The Local Serpentines, T. Chalkley 

 Palmer; \'acuum Tubes, C. M. Broomall ; The Calculation of 

 Easter, J. B. Brown ; The Pueblo Indians and the Enchanted 

 Mesa, Homer E. Hoopes ; The Materials of Language, two 

 lectures, Heniy L. Broomall ; Russia, Jacob B. Brown ; A 

 Cruise on the Chesapeake, T. Chalkley Palmer; Hibernation, 

 Sanford Omensetter ; Bermuda, Rev. S. H. Leeper ; Yosemite 

 Valley and Lower California, Homer E. Hoopes ; The " Burnt 

 Mills," Howard Lungren ; Volcanoes, H. Clay Borden ; Japan, 



