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perhaps account for the production from nebulous matter, 

 of a world, cold and dead, like the moon. For all else it 

 is insufficient. 



MARCH 27, 1894.— SEVENTH REGULAR MEETING. 



Chairman Burgess presiding, and about fifty members 

 and guests present. 



Professor LeRoj' C. Cooley gave a talk upon "The 

 Mechanical Principles Involved in Hearing," illustrat- 

 ing it veith the lantern and, experiments. Professor H. 



E. Mills, Mr. A. E. Moseley, Mr. Edmund Piatt and Mr. 



F. P. Robertson were elected members. 



APRIL 10, 1894.— EIGHTH REGULAR MEETING. 



Chairman Burgess presiding, and about forty members 

 and guests present. 



Rev. James Nilan read a paper on " Monism," tracing 

 the theory through ancient and modern philosophy, and 

 reviewing the arguments for and against it. 



APRIL 24, 1894.— NINTH REGULAR MEETING. 



Chairman Burgess presiding, and over one hundred 

 members and guests present. 



Professor Theodor Neumann, Ph.D., read the follow- 

 ing paper on 



ARTISTS AND ARTISANS IN THE FEATHERED WORLD. 



BY DR. THEODOR NEUMANN. 



Allow me to correct at once a possible misunderstand- 

 ing which may arise [among some of you] very naturally 

 when I speak of "Artists in the Feathered World." 

 There will be not a few here who may expect something 

 entirely different from what I am going to say ; they 



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