THE APRIL MEETING, 1844. 433 



On llie Importance of Physiology as a Branch of General Education. 

 — Professor J. R. W. Dunbar, of Mar ij J and. 



Exercises of the Ninth fleeting, Monday Morning, April 8. 



Hon. John Q. Adams in the chair. 



Prayer, by the Rev. Mr. Bulfinch. 

 The Corresponding Secretary announced the Societies and Colleges 

 which had sent delegates to the meeting, and read a communication 

 from the Hon. Levi Woodbury. He also read extracts of letters 

 from the Rev. Dr. Wayland, President of Brown University, Rhode 

 Island; from Dr. Foreman, of Baltimore; from Professor Johnson, 

 of the Wesleyan University, Connecticut ; and from Professor Tut- 

 wiler, of Alabama — offering important suggestions to the National 

 Institute. He also read a communication from George E. Chase, U. 

 S. Army, of Pensacola, suggesting a method of settling the ortho- 

 graphy and orthoephy of the English language ; — a paper from George 

 Baker and I. Thurber, of Providence, containing a series of obser- 

 vations on the tides in Providence River and Narragansett Bay, in 

 1812, communicated in the name of the Providence Franklin Society; 

 — a paper from S. S. Haldeman, Professor of Zoology, Philadelphia, 

 "On the necessity of a National Institution for the Encouragement of 

 Science;" — a paper by Francis Leiber, L. L. D,, of South Carolina, 

 containing "Remarks on Public Executions ;" — a paper from Profes- 

 sor J. Hamilton, of the University of Nashville, "On certain Meteor- 

 ological Facts observed at Nashville ;" — a conmiunication from J. C. 

 Pickett, U. S. Charge d'Afiaires at Lima, Peru, giving an account 

 of some remarkable ruins in the province of Chachapoyas, Peru; — 

 and, a paper "On the Smithsonian Bequest," by the Hon. Richard 

 Rush, of Pennsylvania. 



On Meteorology. — Professor J. P. Espy, of Washington. 



A Call for Observations on the Late Storm. — Professor Robert 



Hare, of the University of Pennsylvania. (Read by A. D. 



Bachc.) 

 In Support of the Theory of One Electric Fluid, by an Explanation 



of the Phenomena of the Repulsion of Pith Balls negatively 



electrified, Sjc. — John Tyler, Jr., Washington. 



