638 MINUTES. . [Oct. 19, 
Kooyeeunna, Dieyerie, Ahminie, Wonkaoora, Wonkamudla, Yow- 
erawarrika and Yanderawantha, the custom of extracting one or 
two of the front teeth is carried out, females being included in 
some of the tribes mentioned. In the remainder of the territory 
shown on the map the teeth are not interfered with. 
Stated Meeting, October 19, 1900. 
Vice-President SELLERS in the Chair. 
Present, 20 members. 
The death of Sir Henry W. Acland, Bart., K.C.B., at 
Oxford, England, on October 16, 1900, was announced. 
Dr. J. Cheston Morris read an obituary notice of Dr. Henry 
Hartshorne. 
The following papers were presented for the Transactions : 
By Prof. C. L. Doolittle, on ‘‘ Results of Observations 
Made at the Sayre Observatory, South Bethlehem, with the 
Zenith Telescope, from January 19, 1894, to August 19, 
18052" 
By Mr. O. P. Hay, on ‘‘ The Chronological Distribution of 
the Elasmobranchs.”’ 
Mr. Rosengarten corrected an error in his paper, read before 
the Society April 6, 1900, entitled ‘‘ American History from 
German Archives,’’ and printed in Vol. XXXIX, No. 162, p. 
129, ete., of its PROCEEDINGS, as follows : 
It is there stated that ‘‘ the Count of Zwei-Briicken (Deux-Ponts) 
published his American Campaigns in Paris in 1786, and his pamph- 
let was translated and reprinted by Dr. Green, of the Massachu- 
setts Historical Society.’’ The blunder of thus taking away from Dr. 
Green the credit due to him for the discovery and publication of 
the Journal of Deux-Ponts is inexcusable. Dr. Green published 
it in Boston in 1868, and in the Introduction tells the whole story : 
in June, 1867, he found the MS. Journal on a second-hand book- 
