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during the coming vacation and asked the co-operation of 

 such members of the Institute as were interested in the sub- 

 ject. 



EIGHTH MEETING. 



The Eighth Meeting was held on 23rd January, 1886, being 

 also a special general meeting pursuant to notice, the Presi- 

 dent in the chair. 



The following list of Donations and Exchanges was read : 



1. Monthly Weather Review, Dominion of Canada, Dec, 1885. 



2. Report of the Committee^ House of Commons, Canada, on Geological 



Surveys. 



3. Science, Vol. VII., No. 154, Jan. 15, 1886. 



4. Transactions of the New York Academy of Science, Vol. 5, No. 2, Nov. 



1885. 



5. University of Pennsylvania — Catalogue and Announcements, 1885-86. 



6. Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, No. 2, 1885, New York. 



7. The Electrician and Electrical Engineer, New York, Vol. V., No. 49, 



Jan. 1886. 



8. Electrical Review, Jan. 2.3, '86. 



9. (1) Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society (Second Series), 



Vol. VIII., 1884-85. 

 (2) New Jersey Archives (First Series), Vol. IX. 



10. Journal of Speculative Philosophy for July, 1885. 



11. West American Scientist, Vol, 1, Nos. 3 and 11. 



12. Proceedings of the U. S. Naval Institute, Vol. XI., No. 4. (Annapolis^ 



Md.) 



13. The Illustrated Journal of Patented Inventions, Vol. I., Nos. 1 — 31. 



Nov. 28, 1884— June 26, 1885. Vol. II., Nos. 32—56, July 3, 1885— 

 Jan. S, 1886. 



14. The Midland Naturalist, Vol. IX., Jan., '86. 



15. Triibner's American, European and Oriental Literary Record, Nos. 217, 



218. 



16. Electricite, Vol. 10, No. 1. 



17. Cosmos, No. 49. 



18. BoUettino della Societa Geografica Italiana, Ser. II., Vol. X., Fascicolo 



12. 



19. Cronica Cientifica, Barcelona. Ano VIII., Num. 193. 



20. Wochenschrift des Oesterreichischen Ingenieur und Architekten 



Vereines, XI. Jahrgang, No. 1, Wien. 

 "21. Transactions of the Mathematical Society of Charkoff, 1885, Part I. 



Total 78. 



