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the Piaissians, for which as General-in-Chief he must be held more than 

 partiallyaccountable. But even the D'Erlon Gontretem.ps and the delays 

 of the 17th were remediable on the 18th. Had Grouchy been equal 

 to the occasion, the plan of campaign would have been successfully 

 carried out. It was not to be. The sun of Waterloo set, "and the 

 " land had rest forty years." 



The President said that the paper that they had just listened 

 to was one of great value. Though a long period had elapsed 

 since the battle of Waterloo and much had been written re- 

 specting it, Mr. Kingsford had done wisely in again opening, 

 up the subject. The one-sidedness of historians was well 

 known, and there were still several points that required to be 

 settled. He himself had been present at an excited discussion 

 between a number of English and Prussian officers ; each party 

 contending that it was purely a victory for their respective 

 nationality. 



SEVENTEENTH MEETING. 



Seventeenth Meeting, 27th March, 1886, the President in 

 the Chair. 



The following list of donations and exchanges was read : 



1. Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XVIII., No. 3. 



2. Transactions of the Field Naturalists' Club, No. 6, Ottawa. 



3. Science, Vol. VII., No. 163. 



4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, Vol. VIII., No. 1, 



Chicago . 



5. Johns Hopkins University Circulars, Vol. V., No. 47. 



6. Thirty-Second Annual Report of the State Historical Society of 



Wisconsin. 



7. Fifth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1883-84. 



8. West American Scientist, Vol. II., Nos. 13 and 14. 



9. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Vol. V., No. 1. 



10. The American Naturalist, April, 1886. 



11. The Electrical Review, March 25, 1886. 



12. The Chemical News, March 12, 1886. 



13. Journal of the Liverpool Astronomical Society, Vol. IV., Nos. 3, 4, 5. 



