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othei' wlien spoken. In each the music ascended from the oo in boom, 

 regularly through the list to the ee in keen; and in each the oo sound 

 fell upon the same note, which in the speaker's voice was e below the 

 bass stave on a high-pitched piano. But the vowels of the whispered 

 scale mounted in the intervals e, a, h, c sharp twice repeated, and the 

 latter half of them at least emitted also a fainter resonance descending 

 in the opposite order; whereas the spoken scale was throughout 

 single and chromatic. 



Lastly, Mr. Rouse adverted to the use of vowel interjections in 

 common by nations widely severed in habitation and kinship — a per- 

 mitted relic, as he thought, of the time before the confusion of tongues ; 

 and he showed the remarkable fact that each one of the long simple 

 sounds he had distinguished was used in English to express a different 

 emotion — oo or oogh for anger, oh for surprise, aw for wonder, ah for 

 sorrow, urgh for disgust, eh for inquiry, iich for contempt, and eegh 

 for pain. 



Remarks were made by Dr. Workman, and Messrs. Van- 

 derSmissen, Boyle, Keys, Mowat, Galbraith and Macdougall. 



After the reading of Mr. Rouse's paper, Mr. John PhiUips 

 introduced the subject of the " Centrifugal Forces of the 

 Planets." 



EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



The Eighth Ordinary Meeting of the Session i884-'85, was 

 held on Saturday, December 20th, 1884, the President in the 

 Chair. 



The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Donations and Exchanges received since last meeting : 



1. Monthly Weather Review, November, 1S84. 



2. Journal and Proceedings of the Hamilton Association for lS82-'83, Vol. I., 



Part I. 



3. Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XVI., No. 10, October, 1884. 



4. Science, Vol. IV., No. 97, December 12th, 1884. 



5. Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, 



188a-'81. 



6. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias in Cordoba (Republica 



Argentina), Tomo VI., Entregas '2a & 3a. 



