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lination in the United States, by the cliairman, with maps and diagrams, 

 followed by an address by Mr G. W. Littlehales on the Magnetic Com- 

 pass in Modern Navigation. 



Special Meeting, April 19, 1897. — Eighth Monday afternoon illusti-ated 

 lecture. President Hubbard in the chair. Prof. Wm. H. Goodyear, of 

 the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, lectured on Venice and Genoa. 



Special Meeting, April 2S, 1897. — President Hubbard in the chair. Dr 

 T. C. Mendenhall, President of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, lec- 

 tured, with lantern illustrations, on Weighing the Earth. 



Special Meeting, April 26, 1897. — Ninth, and last, Monday afternoon 

 illustrated lecture. President Hubbard in the chair. Dr David J. Hill 

 lectured on America. After the lecture a number of lantern illustrations 

 of American scenery were thrown on the screen by Mr B. P. Murray. 



Regular Meeting, April 30, 1897. — President Hubbard in the chair. Hon. 

 Martin A. Knapp, Commissioner of Interstate Commerce, read a paper, 

 with lantern illustrations, on Some Geographic Effects of Modern Methods 

 of Transportation. 



Elections. — March £6. — J. M. Boutwell, Pay-Inspector A. Burtis, U. 

 S. N., Col. R. M. Calhoun, Lieut. G. B. Harber, U. S. N., E. T. Parsons, 

 Louis R. Peak, Powhatan Robertson, Hon. N. D. Sperry, Wallace Sti'eator. 



April P.— Capt. John Callahan, Rev. Asa S. Fiske, Miss L. N. Forrest, 

 Lieut. F. M. Kemp, U. S. A., Mrs Porter King, W. A. McFarland, Wm. 

 A. McKenney, Dr Grace Roberts, Miss Grace C. Sheldon, Miss Mary A. 

 Spencer, Julius Ulke, Jr. 



Deaths. — Major Charles E. Bendire, U. S. A. ; Rear-Admiral Richard 

 AV. Meade, U. S. N. 



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The map of the United States published by the General Land Office in 

 1896 represented in broad lines the original territory of the United States 

 and the several accessions made to it by purchase or otherwise. Among 

 the mistakes perpetuated by this map is that of representing " Oregon," 

 i. e., the present states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and part of Mon- 

 tana, as a portion of the Louisiana purchase. This mistake is taken as a 

 text by Colonel James 0. Broadhead for a critical review entitled " The 

 Louisiana Purchase; Extent of Territory Acquired by the Purchase," 

 published by the Missouri Historical Society. Colonel Broadhead shows 

 most conclusively that Louisiana extended on the northwest only to the 

 limits of the Mississippi drainage basin. The conclusion is not a new one, 

 but we are obliged to Colonel Broadhead for many new items of evidence. 

 If anything were needed to settle the matter bej'ond peradventure, the 

 proofs which he brings forward should be conclusive. 



H. G. 



