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your hands, has on it a list of sixty-three papers. There are six additional 

 papers which have been added. One of these, a paper by Prof. M. B. 

 Thomas, was omitted from the original list. The additions are as fol- 

 lows : 



"The Wood Lot," M. B. Thomas. 



"The Nasal Muscles of Vertebrates," H. L. Bruner. 



"Streamers that Show Reversal of Curvature in the Corona of 



1893," J. A. Miller. 

 "On a New Complex Copper Cyanogen Compound," A. R. Middle- 

 ton. 

 "Determination of Endothermic Gases by Combustion," A. R. 



Middleton. 

 "That Erroneous Hiawatha," A. B. Reagan. 

 This brings the number of papers up to sixty-nine. 

 At the conclusion of the business of the meeting there will be re- 

 sponses from other State societies, some six or eight in number. 



The program as printed indicates a banquet this evening, to which 

 attention has been called, and the program for which will be announced 

 later. 



The program for tomorrow inorning is also printed here, including 

 four principal addresses, and suggestions as to plans for the Academy. 



I want to say in behalf of the Committee on the Twenty-fifth Anni- 

 versary that we have been very much gratified by the interest that has 

 been taken by the educational and scientific societies throughout the State. 

 The Indiana Medical Association, the Historical Society, the Teachers' As- 

 sociation, and a number of other associations have by formal resolution 

 recognized this twenty-fifth meeting, and several of them have appointed 

 delegates to attend the meeting. 



I would also like to call attention to the fact that we have had a 

 very large number of congratulatory letters on the period we have ar- 

 rived at in the history of this Society, and there are three I would like to 

 call attention to. One is from one of the ex-Presidents whom we always 

 delighted to honor, Mr. T. C. Mendenhall. He is at present in Europe in 

 search of health, and as he cannot be present, sends his congratulations. 

 Also a letter from Professor Goss, of the University of Illinois, who had 

 expected to be present until he found that this date is the same as that 

 of the dedication of their new Physics building, so he could not come. 

 Also one from Prof. Kingsley, of Tufts College, Mass. These three letters 

 are particularly earnest and cordial in their words of greeting. 



