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colossal and ingenious works of their skill and indxistry on earth, we 

 can see that com])arative philology helps its sister science Ethnology, 

 and tends to lessen the area on which rose the primeval language, 

 and strengthens the probability of the origin of the race and of 

 language from one original centre. 



TWENTY-FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



The Twenty-Fourth Ordinary Meeting was held on 25th 

 April, 1885, the President in the Chair. 



The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following list of donations and exchanges was read : 



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



2. First Supplementary Catalogue, Central Circulating Library, Toronto. 



3. Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, No. IV. 



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



5. Transactions of the BuflFalo Historical Society, Part III. Obsequies of 



Red Jacket at Buflfalo, October 9th, 1884. 



6. Science, Vol. V., No. 115, April I7th, 1885. 



7. Bulletins of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, Nos. 1, 2, 5, 



6, and Vol. II. 

 Twelfth and Thirteenth Reports of the State Entomologist on the Noxious 

 and Beneficial Insects of the State of Illinois. 



8. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Vol. IV. 

 " Comstock Mining and Miners," by Eliot Lord. 



9. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Nos. 235-236.* 



10. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, N.S., Vol. VII., No. 4, 



April, 1885. 



11. Triibner's American, European, and Oriental Literary Record, Nos. 207- 



208, N. S., Vol. VL, Nos. 1-2. 



12. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society, Parts IV., V., VI. , 



VII., Vol. XVIIL, Session 1884-'85. 



13. Archivio per I'Antropologia e la Etnologia, Quattordicesino Volume, 



Fascicolo Terzo. 



14. Atti della Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali, residente in Pisa, Memorie, 



Vol. IV., Ease. 3o. 



15. Bulletin de la Societe d' Anthropologic de Paris, Tome Septi^me, (Ille 



S6rie, ) 5e Fascicule, D^cembre, 1884. 



16. Mitheilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, XIV. Band, 



IV. Heft. 



Messrs. C. G. Richardson and W. T. Tassie were elected 

 members. 



