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Mr. Rouse made enquiry respecting the village community 

 in Russia. 



Mr. Houston replied that Russia afiforded the most perfect 

 example of the existence of the village community. 



Mr. Phipps corroborated Mr. Houston's statement respect- 

 ing the village communities in Russia. He called attention 

 to the absence of reference to the village communities in the 

 documents of the reigns of Henry I., Stephen, and other 

 early English kings ; and made some observations on the 

 changes of the tenure of land in Scotland owing to the rebel- 

 lion of '45. 



SIXTH MEETING. 



The Sixth Meeting was held on Saturday, 9th January, 

 1886, the 2nd Vice-President in the chair. 



The following list of Donations and Exchanges was read • 



I.— CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES. 



1. Le Naturalists Canadien, Dec, 1885. 



2. The Canadian. Practitioner, Jan., 1886. 



3. Science, Vol. VI., Nos. 150, 151 ; Vol. VII., No. 152. 



4. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Nov., 1885. 



5. Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences, Nos. 1, 2, 3. 

 Illustrations of the Zygfenidas and Bambycidae of North America, by 



Eichard H. Stretch, Vol. I,, Parts 1—9. 

 Four Pamphlets on Early Migration, by Charles Wolcott Brooks, 



1876— '84. 

 Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 2 Pamphlets, 1880-81. 

 Catalogue of the Pacific Coast Fungi, 1880. 



6. Magazine of American History, Jan. 7, '86. 



7. Johns Hopkins University Circular for December, 1885. 



8. The Apparent Position of the Zodiacal Light, by Arthar Searle. 



9. American Journal of Science, January, '86. 



10. The American Naturalist, January, '86. 



11. Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. XXII., Nos. 4, 5, 6. 



12. Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1881-82, Washington. 



13. Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. VII., No. 9, Nov. 1885. 



14. Journal of the Franklin Institute, January, 1886. 



Total, 26 numbers. 



