MINUTES OF MEETINGS. 



January ro, 1907. — Adjourned meeting. Paper on "Irish 

 Poetr}'," by Prof. John Russell Hayes, of Swarlhmore College. 



January 17, 1907. — Adjourned meeting. Illustrated lec- 

 ture, " Life in the Sea," by Henry S. Pratt. 



January 24, 1907. — Adjourned meeting. Lecture, "Dr. 

 Daniel Kirkwood," by President Swain, Swarthniore College. 



Fkbri^ary 7, 1907. — Regular monthly meeting, with Pre- 

 sident T. Chalkley Palmer in the chair. Ober Baker and Car- 

 lota Broomall were elected juvenile members The donation 

 to the Institute of thirty-two volumes from the library of the 

 late Jacob B. Brown was announced, presented b}^ Miss Anne 

 Knapp Whitney. J. C. Noblit presented to the library a copy 

 of " Genealogical Collections." There was also reported the 

 receipt of ten volumes of the Annual Reports of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology, making complete the Institute's set of these valu- 

 able works from the beginning to date. The contamination 

 of the springs and wells on the outskirts of the town by the 

 deep cesspools at the court house and elsewhere intercepting 

 underground streams of water was discussed. C. M. Broomall 

 exhibited a curious composite ring, made up of four links like 

 a chain, which could be fitted together in such a way as to 

 make a ring of four bands. This device was formerly the 

 property of the late Mr. Brown, who had obtained the original 

 of the ring in India. Eugene Walker spoke of an outbreak 

 of anthrax at Kennett Square, Chester County, said to have 

 arisen from cattle being allowed to rant^e over ground where 

 years before there had l)een a tanyard. After further discus- 

 sion of scientific matters the Institute adjourned. 



Ki':rkuarv 14, 1907. — Adjourned meeting. Lecture on 

 " Strange Tongues,'" by Henry L. Broomall. 



Fi':r.Rr.\RV 21, 1907. — Adjourned meeting. Illustrated 

 lecture on "Some ( )bser\'alions of Canadian Glaciers," by 

 George \'anx, Tr. 



