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[March 6, 



A circular in relation to the formation of State library 

 associations. 



A circular in relation to the Fifth International Geographi- 

 cal Congress to be held in Washington, August 26, 1891. 



A circular from the Society of Borda, Dax, announcing the 

 death of M. Henry du Boucher, a former President. 



A circular from 1'Acade'mie des Sciences, etc., de Belgique, 

 announcing the death of Lieut.-General J. B. I. Liagre, its 

 Permanent Secretary. 



A letter from R. Brabbee (Vienna VIII, Kochgasse 27) 

 enclosing a specimen of his new method of reckoning. 



A letter from Dr. Antonio Del Bon (Padua) in relation to 

 Prof. P. E. Chase's paper on " English and Sanskrit Root- 

 analogues." 



Letters from August Tischner (Leipzig) on " The Celestial 

 Phenomena," " The Movements of the Sun in Space," " The 

 Movements of the Planets," " The Solar System " and " The 

 Elements of the Elliptic Orbits." 



A paper by Dr. D. G-. Brinton entitled " Some Vocabularies 

 from the Musquito Coast " was presented. 



Dr. J. Cheston Morris presented a pamphlet entitled 

 " Tepeu " (by Dr. Thomas E. Pickett), on the hypothetical 

 migrations of the Morbus Americanus, upon which he made 

 some remarks, referring to the account given by Josephus of 

 the evils caused the Jewish youth by the entrance of the 

 Midianitish women into the Hebrew camp. 



Dr. J. Cheston Morris made some remarks on "Hebrew 

 Phonetics," and was followed by Prof. J. P. Lesley upon the 

 same subject. 



Prof. Lesley made some remarks on a report by Mr. John 

 Fulton (Johnstown, Pa.) on the diminution of the supply of 

 natural gas and its ratio. 



Dr. Morris called attention to the case of the miners recently 

 entombed at Jeanesville, Pa., for nineteen days almost without 

 food. " They were found in a breast near where they had 

 been working. The water from an abandoned mine at a much 

 higher level, estimated at 145 feet, had entered the mine and 



