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directed to expressing thoughts by means of comprehension 

 and reply equally possessed by both, without the mental con- 

 fusion of conventional sounds only intelligible to one. 



ELEVENTH REGULAR MEETING. 



November 4, 1879. 



Poisoned Weapons of North and South America. 

 By W. J. HOFFMAN. 



This paper was an historical review of the accounts which 

 various travelers and writers have given of the use of 

 poisoned weapons and the antidotes therefor, discovered in 

 North and South America, 



The Use of Agricultural Fertilizers by the American 

 Indians and the Early English Colonists. 



By G. BROWN GOODE. 



This paper has been published in full in the American 

 Naturalist for July, 1880. 



TWELFTH REGULAR MEETLNG. 



November 18, 1879. 



A Comparison of a Written Language With One That 

 is Spoken Only. 



By OTIS T. MASON. 



The Rev. Cyrus Byington, in the introductory chapter of 

 his Chata (Choctaw) Grammar, draws attention to the fact 

 that this is merely a spoken language, and must not be 

 gauged by the ordinary critical tests of a written language. 



