MINUTES OF MEETINCxS. 



October 17, 1906. — Adjourned Meeting. Illustrated Lec- 

 ture on " Student Life at Oxford," by Dr. Jesse Holmes, of 

 Swarthmore College. 



October 24, igo6. — Adjourned Meeting. Paper on "Old 

 Chester and its Surroundings," by Mrs. Clara B. Miller, 

 of Media. 



November r, 1906. — Regular Monthly Meeting, Vice Pre- 

 sident Henry L. Broomall presiding. Reports of curators 

 and committees and routine business. Lewis Kirk spoke at 

 some length on certain interesting points in connection with 

 Euclid's Forty-seventh Proposition, suggested by the discus- 

 sion of this subject at the previous regular meeting. CM. 

 Broomall exhibited some test tubes illustrating the peculiar 

 action of chlorophyl with various solvents. In response to a 

 querj^ Henry L. Broomall gave an account of the various 

 universal languages that had been invented from time to time, 

 Esperanto, Volapiik, etc., describing their characteristics and 

 possibilities. 



November 8, 1906. — iVdjourned Meeting. Illustrated 

 Lecture by Mr. S. L. Shumo, of Philadelphia, on "Jerusalem 

 and Damascus. " 



November 15, 1906. — Adjourned Meeting. Illustrated 

 Lecture by Prof. Charles W. Palmer, of Westtown School, on 

 " Insect Architecture." 



November 22, 1906. — Adjourned Meeting. Paper on 

 "Tidal Phenomena,'-' by Theophilus P. Saulnier, of Media. 



December 6, 1906. — Regular Monthly Meeting, President 

 T. Chalkley Palmer presiding. The President announced the 

 death of Jacob B. Brown, a member of the Board of Curators 

 and of the Publication Committee. Dr. Trimble Pratt and 

 Henry L. Broomall were appointed a committee to prepare a 

 minute expressing the Institute's sentiment of the great loss 



