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other when spoken. In each the music ascended from the 00 in boom, 
regularly through the list to the ee in keen; and in each the 00 sound 
fell upon the same note, which in the speaker’s voice was e below the 
bass stave on a high-pitched piano, But the vowels of the whispered 
scale mounted in the intervals e, a, b, c sharp twice repeated, and the 
latter half of them at least emitted also a fainter resonance descending 
in the opposite order; whereas the spoken scale was throughout 
single and chromatic. 
Lastly, Mr. Rouse adverted to the use of vowel interjections in 
common ‘by nations widely severed in habitation and kinship—a per- 
mitted relic, as he thought, of the time before the confusion of tongues ; 
and he showed the remarkable fact that each one of the long simple 
sounds he had distinguished was used in English to express a different 
emotion—oo or oogh for anger, oh for surprise, aw for wonder, ah for 
sorrow, urgh for disgust, eh for inquiry, tich for contempt, and eegh 
for pain. 
Remarks were made by Dr. Workman, and Messrs. Van- 
derSmissen, Boyle, Keys, Mowat, Galbraith and Macdougall. 
After the reading of Mr. Rouse’s paper, Mr. John Phillips 
introduced the subject of the “Centrifugal Forces of the 
Planets.” 
EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
The Eighth Ordinary Meeting of-the Session 1884-’85, was 
held on Saturday, December 20th, 1884, the President in the 
Chair. 
The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Donations and Exchanges received since last meeting : 
. Monthly Weather Review, November, 1884. 
2. Journal and Proceedings of the Hamilton Association for 1882-83, Vol. I., 
Part I. 
3. Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XVI., No. 10, October, 1884. 
. Science, Vol. IV., No. 97, December 12th, 1884. 
5. Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, 
1880-81. 
6. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias in Cordoba (Republica 
Argentina), Tomo VI., Entregas 2a & 3a. 
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