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ship and the Hbrary of the Society, illustrating the same with a 

 number of diagrams. 



Major J. W. Powell then spoke on the future of the Society, 

 with the advantages incidental to an increase in membership. 



May i, 1893. Field meeting. 



About 350 members and guests embarked on the steamer 

 Charles Macalester for a trip down the Potomac river. On 

 reaching Indian head, the party was received by Ensign R. B. 

 Dashiell, United States Navy, who explained and illustrated by 

 the actual firing of several guns, the operations of testing naval 

 ordnance and armor plates. 



Returning to Marshall Hall, a planked-shad dinner was served, 

 and at 9 p ni the Society left for the city. 



On the return trip speeches were made by Honorable J. H. 

 Outhwaite and others. Mr Tsunejiro Mijaoka, secretary of the 

 Japanese legation, gave a brief description of Japan and its peo- 

 ple. The Reverend Suraantrao Vishna Karmarkar, of Bombay, 

 sang some of his native songs, accompanied b}^ his wife, who ^ 

 afterward spoke briefly on the women of India. 



May 5, 1893. Special meeting. 



Meeting held in the Builders' ISxchange Hall. President Hub- 

 bard in the chair. Attendance, 350. 



Professor J. S. Rothrock, of the Pennsylvania Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, described a winter's cruise in the British West Indies. 

 His lecture was illustrated with lantern slides. 



May 12, 1893. 82d meeting. 



Meeting held in the Builders' Exchange Hall. President Hub- 

 bard in the chair. Attendance, 400. 



Dr J. Walter Fewkes, of the Hemenway expedition, delivered 

 an illustrated lecture on " The Moki Snake Dance." 



May 19, 1893. Special meeting. 



Meeting held in the Builders' Exchange Hall. President Hub- 

 bard in the chair. Attendance, 625. 



Professor Albert S. Bickmore gave an illustrated lecture on 

 " Moorish S]3ain." 



