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CALENDAR OF SOCIETIES. 



Philosophical Society, Washington. 



April 26.— G. W. Littlehales, On a New 

 Method of recording and reproducing Artic- 

 ulate Speech; William Eimbeck, On a New 

 Method of determining Astronomical Differ- 

 ences of Longitude; Romyn Hitchcock, The 

 Burial Mounds of Japan (illustrated by lan- 

 tern projections). 



Women's Anthropological Society of 

 America, Washington. 



April 26. — Mrs. Eliza Nelson Blair, A 

 Study in Washington Charities. 



Natural Science Association of Staten 



Island. 

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 Fund Committee reported progress to date; 

 Mr. Ira K. Morris presented a brass spur, of 

 Spanish fashion, which was lately ploughed 

 up on the Poorhouse Farm; a specimen of 

 the violet spotted salamander {Amblystoma 

 punctata) was shown, in which the tail was 

 bifurcated, each branch being about half an 

 inch in length. It was captured by Mr. 

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Engineers' Club, St. Louis. 



April 16.— Isaac A. Smith, Railway In- 

 clines; Arthur J. Frith, Some Practical and 

 Theoretical Considerations of the Screw as 

 an Element of Mechanism ; Robert Moore, 

 Exhibition of Some Cubes of Clay taken 

 from the Bottom of the Mississippi River at 

 Memphis; Professor Johnson, Data regard- 

 ing Recent Tests of Granitoid Beams. 



Royal Meteorological Society, London. 



April 16. — C. Harding, The Cold Period 

 at the Beginning of March, 1890 ; J. E. Clark, 

 Note on the Whirlwind which occurred at 

 Fiilford, near York, March 8, 1890; A. E. 

 Watson, On the Possibility of forecasting 

 the Weather by Means of Monthly Aver- 

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