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Other acts of the session were as follow : 



Establishing a great seal for the State. 



To provide for the sale of timber from lands be- 

 longing to the State. 



Authorizing the State Board of Education to select 

 lands from the school lands and other public lands 

 for the uses and purposes of the educational institu- 

 tions of the State. 



Regulating the branding of stock driven into or 

 through the State. 



To punish persons driving horses, mules, or cattle 

 from their usual and customary range. 

 ^ Placing the Montana Historical Society under State 

 control. 



Providing for the incorporation of accidentin-sur- 

 ance companies doing business on the assessment 

 plan. 



Authorizing counties and cities to make contracts 

 for the abatement of injurious and unhealthful smoke 

 and fumes, and to issue bonds for that purpose. 



Permitting the purchase, consolidation, lease, sale, 

 and aiding of one railroad by or with another. 



Denning the conditions on which foreign corpora- 

 tions may do business in the State. 



State Lands. For the fiscal year 1893 there 

 were 170,438-69 acres selected on account of 

 State institutions from the public domain. The 

 total selections of land for these institutions 

 have amounted to 353.689'35 acres. Of this 

 amount the State relinquished l,382 - 94 acres, 

 leaving the net selections 352,297'41 acres. 



Silver Conference. A convention of repre- 

 sentatives from the mining districts of the State, 

 called by the mine owners, met at Helena on 

 July 6, at which a permanent organization was 

 formed, to be known as the Montana Free Coin- 

 age Association. Delegates to attend the ses- 

 sions of the Bimetallic League at Chicago, and 

 to represent the silver interests of the State at 

 the extra session of Congress, were also chosen. 

 Resolutions were adopted, including these : 



We declare it to be our deliberate conviction that, 

 in view of the unrequited labors of prospectors, the 

 work expended upon the development of unprofitable 

 mines, the losses on unproductive plants, and all the 

 factors that enter into the ultimate cost of the silver 

 product of the West, every ounce of silver taken from 

 the earth and prepared for the mint represents its 

 full coinage value at a ratio to gold of sixteen to one. 



That the commerce of the world calls for the use of 

 silver and gold as money, not only for the purpose of 

 att'ording the necessary volume of currency, but 

 equally that each may correct the occasional aberra- 

 tion in the value of the other. 



That as the history of the depreciation of silver is 

 a history of adverse* legislation, without which its 

 parity to gold would have been maintained without 

 doubt or difficulty, we demand that Congress shall ho 

 the first to retrace its steps and repeal the measures 

 it has enacted to the detriment of that metal. 



That we appeal to the laboring classes of the Union, 

 without regard to section, to give their support to the 

 policy of free coinage. 



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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Officers : President, Othniel C. Marsh ; Vice-Pres- 

 ident, Francis A. Walker; Foreign Secretary, 

 Wolcott Gibbs; Home Secretary, Asaph Hall; 

 Treasurer. John S. Billings. Two meetings were 

 held during 1893. The first or stated meeting 

 was held in Washington, D. C., on April 18-20, 

 when the following papers were read : 



" Helen Kellar," by Alexander G. Bell ; " Peptoni- 

 zation in Gastric Digestion," by Russell H. Chitten- 

 den; "On the Systematic Relations of the Ophidia," 

 by Edward D. Cope ; " The Classification of tne Gas- 

 tropodous Mollusks," by Theodore Gill ; " Intermedi- 

 ary Orbits," by George W. Hill ; " On the Nature of 

 Certain Solutions, and on a New Means of investigat- 

 ing them," by Matthew C. Lea ; " The Relations of 

 Allied Branches of Biological Research to the Study 

 of the Development of the Individual, and the Evolu- 

 tion of Groups," " The Endosiphonoidea (Endoceras, 

 etc.), considered as a New Order of Cephalopoda," "A 

 New Type of Fossil Cephalopods," and " Results of 

 Recent Researches upon Fossil Cephalopods of the 

 Carboniferous," by Alpheus Hyatt ; " On a Potential- 

 ity of Internal Work in the Wind " and " On a Bolo- 

 graph of the Infra-red Solar Spectrum," by Samuel P. 

 Langley ; " The Relations between the Statistics of 

 Immigration and the Census Returns of the Foreign- 

 Born Population of the United States " and " Statis- 

 tical Data for the Study of the Assimilation of Races 

 and Nationalities in the United States," by Richmond 

 Mayo-Smith ; " Fundamental Standards of Length 

 and Mass," "Telegraphic Gravity Determinations," 

 and " Comparison of Latitude Determinations at Wai- 

 kiki," by Thomas C. Mendeuhall ; and "Monograph 

 of the Bombycine Moths of America, North of Mexico : 

 Part I Notodontidse," by Alpheus S. Packard ; also 

 a " Biographical Memoir of General Montgomery C. 

 Meiers," by Henry L. Abbott ; and a " Memoir of Ju- 

 lius E. Hilgard," by Eugene W. Hilgard. 



The following paper was read by a non-mem- 

 ber: 



" A One- Volt Standard Cell," by Henry S. Carhart, 

 introduced by Thomas C. Mendeiihall. 



No new members were elected at this session, 

 owing to the impossibility of agreeing upon can- 

 didates, but three foreign associates were chosen : 

 Francois Felix Tissandier, of Paris, whose spe- 

 cialty is astronomy ; Karl Ludwig, of Leipzig, 

 whose specialty is physiology; and Karl Ram- 

 melsberg, of Berlin, whose specialty is chemis- 

 try. At this session also the third presentation 

 of the Henry Draper medal was made to Henry 

 C. Vogel, of Potsdam, Germany, for his research- 

 es in astronomical physics. 



The scientific session was held in Albany. N. Y., 

 on Nov. 7-9, when the following papers were 

 read: 



" Additional Researches on the Motion of the Earth's 

 Pole," by Seth C. Chandler; "Certain Ilistolojrical 

 Relations between the Subalpine Plants of the White 

 Hills and of the Labrador Coast," by George L. 

 Goodale; "Double Stars," by Asaph Hall; "The 

 Palaeontology of the State of New York the Present 

 Condition of the Work," and " The Geological Map 

 of the State of New York," by James Hall; "On a 

 New Form of Telescopic Objective, as applied to the 



ozoic Cockroaches," by Samuel H. Scudder; also a 

 "Biographical Memoir of Amos H. Worthen," by 

 Charles A. White ; and a '' Biographical Memoir of 

 William P. Trowbridge," by Cyrus B. Comstock. 



The following papers were read by non-mem- 

 bers: 



