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in the University of Virginia, he maintained that all the phe- 

 nomena of mental association were to be explained by that law, 

 both of body and mind, by which each has a tendency to re- 

 peat its former acts; and that it is a necessary result of this 

 law that proximity of time or place, resemblance, and contrast, 

 are the principles of connexion between conjoined ideas. 



Professor Tucker further remarked, that there appeared to 

 be some coincidence between his views of association and those 

 of Sir William Hamilton in his recent edition of Reid's works, 

 but the latter part of the note on this subject being omitted, 

 by the carelessness of the binder, in the copy he had seen, the 

 only one he believed in the city, he could not yet say how far 

 Professor Hamilton's theory of association agreed with his 

 own, and how far they differed. 



The Committee of Finance, by Mr. C. C. Biddle, made their 

 annual report. 



ERRATUM. 



In the Proceedings, Vol. IV., No. 35, p. 269, the final character of the 

 Wyandot numeral for Jive, should be inverted. 



