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1882, E. Lewis Sturtevant, A. M., M. D., Director. Professional Papers 
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Surface, by Prof. Wm. Ferrel, with notes by Frank Waldo; No. IX, Charts and 
Tables Showing the Distribution of Rainfall in the United States, by Lieut. H. 
H. C. Dunwoody, Acting Signal Officer ; No. XI, Meteorological and Physical 
Observations on the East Coast of British America, by Orray Taft Sherman; No. 
XII, Popular Essays on the Movements of the Atmosphere, by Prof. Wm. Ferrel. 
Observations of the Transit of Venus, Dec. 6, 1882, made at the University 
of Virginia by Professor Francis H. Smith, LL.D., and Ormond Stone, M. A., 
Director of the Observatory. On the Characters of the Skull in the Hadrosau- 
ridse : On some Vertebrata from the Permian of Illinois, by E. D. Cope. A 
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L. Gordon, St. Paul, Minn. 
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 
MONEY : ITS ORIGIN AND HISTORY.— Concluded. 
H. A. HAGEN. 
The treasuries of the Roman Catholic churches and monasteries contain still, 
in some countries, an immense amount of precious metals, which may be consid- 
ered as lost forever to circulation, except in extreme calamities. 
That lack of money will not become absolete is true. Lack of money can 
be divided into three categories : Either an individual has no money, or the 
State where he lives has no money, or the money itself has in fact disappeared. 
The causes of the first category are mostly best known to the individual him- 
self, and may be left to his own consideration. The third category has been 
spoken of before, will never cease, and will rise in proportion to the increase of 
the metals. 
The second category — when the money has left the State — needs some ex- 
planation. That a State can meet with the same misfortune as an individual is 
obvious, but there are different casualties to be considered. In former times it 
was thought fit to stop entirely the exportation of precious metals, or, as it was 
said, to keep the money in the country. In 1726 and 1731 edicts were promul- 
gated in Prussia forbidding, by heavy penalty, the export of gold and silver. 
The same king had paved the immense hall in his palace at Berlin with thalers, 
