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game twenty or thirty yards away ; and we found that where a damp 

 gemi-coherent stratum lay at the depth of three or four inches beneath, 

 and all was dry and incoherent above, the tones were loudest and sharp- 

 est, and most easily evoked by the foot. Our discovery for I trust 

 I may regard it as such adds a third locality to two previously known 

 ones, in which What may be termed the musical sand no unmeet 

 counterpart to the " singing water" of the tale has now been found. 

 And as the island of Eigg is considerably more accessible than Jabel 

 Nakous, in Arabia Petrsea, or Reg-Rawan, in the neighborhood of Cabul, 

 there must be facilities presented through the discovery which did not 

 exist hitherto, for examining the phenomenon in acoustics which it 

 exhibits, a phenomenon, it may be added, which some of our great- 

 est masters of the science have, confessed their inability to explain." 



At one o'clock the party reassembled at the Chapel of the First 

 Baptist Society, and, after the collation, adjourned to the Congregational 

 Church, where the regular meeting was organized at two o'clock, with 

 Vice President GOODELL in the chair. 



The meeting was opened by a voluntary on the organ and singing 

 by the church choir. 



After the reading of the records of the last meeting, letters were 

 announced from the following : 



Henry d' Aligny, Houghton, Mich. ; Dr. B. G. Wilder, Boston ; Capt. 

 A. Hyatt, New York; T. A. Cheney, Havana, N. Y. ; New Orleans Acad- 

 emy of Science (July 8) ; Horace Mann, Cambridge ; Prof. H. C. Wood, 

 jr., Philadelphia ; C. J. Maynard, Newtonville ; Rev. E. C. Bolles, Port- 

 land; Rev. J. C. Fletcher, Newburyport (July 9) ; E. S. Morse, Port- 

 land, Me. ; Surgeon Elliott Coues, U. S. A.. Columbia, S. C. (July 10) ; 

 A. M. Edwards, New York ; John Bartlett (July 12) ; Dr. B. G. Wilder, 

 Boston ; T. A. Cheney, Watkins, N. Y. (July 13) ; John H. Thomson, 

 New Bedford (July 14) ; Prof. A. E. Verrill, Yale College ; Dr. B. G. 

 Wilder, Boston (July 16) ; E. S. Morse, Portland, Me. (July 17) ; B. 

 F. Molin, Indianapolis, Ind. ; W. D. Hartman, Westchester, Pa. (July 

 18) ; Prof. E. J. Pickett, Rochester, N. Y. ; T. P. Gentlee, Manchester 

 (July 19) ; W. L. Weston, Danvers ; Warren Ordway, Bradford (July 

 20) ; W. Wood & Co., New York; Prof. A. E. Verrill, Yale College (Ju- 

 ly 22) ; Dr. S. C. Williams, Silver Springs, Pa. ; Dr. A. S. Packard, 

 Boston ; Dr. B. G. Wilder, Boston ; W. H. Dall, San Francisco, Cal. ; 

 H. A. Cutting, Lunenburgh, Vt. ; A. P. Nichols, Haverhill ; Maine His- 

 torical Society (July 23) ; Dr. B. G. Wilder, Boston ; American Anti- 

 quarian Society ; Solomon Lincoln, Boston ; Pennsylvania Historical 

 Society (July 24) ; Dr. B. G. Wilder, Boston; S. L. Boardman, Augus- 

 ta, Me. ; W. W. Butterfleld, Indianapolis, Ind. ; J. P. Haskell, Mar- 

 blehead; Corporation of Yale College (July 27) ; E. S. Morse, Portland, 

 Me. ; T. P. Gentlee, Manchester (July 28) ; Prof. E. J. Pickett, Roch- 

 ester, N. Y. ; P. R. Uhler, Cambridge ; State Historical Society of Iowa ; 

 F. S. Pease, Albany, N. Y. (July 30) ; Dr. B. G. Wilder, South Yar- 

 mouth; Dr. S. A. Green, Boston; S. L. Boardman, Augusta, Me. ; Mrs. 

 P. A. Hanaford, Boston ; Moses Howe, Haverhill ; Franklin Haven, Bos- 

 ton (Aug. 1). 



