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Treasurer was read and accepted. Papers were read, with lantern illus- 

 trations, by Mr Arthur P. Davis on The Pollution of Potomac Water, its 

 Sources and Extent, and on The Effects and Remedies, by Passed Assistant 

 Surgeon E. K. Sprague, of the Marine Hospital Service. 



Special Meeting, November 26, 1897. — Mr W J McGee in the chair. Mr 

 W. H. Holmes, of the National Museum, gave an illustrated lecture on 

 The Ruined Cities of Yucatan. 



Regular Meeting, Decembers, 1897. — Mr W J McGee in the chair. Papers 

 were read by Mr F. W. Hodge, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 on Acoma and the Enchanted Mesa, and by Dr Walter Hough on Indian 

 Medicinal Plants of the Southwest. The first paper was illustrated by 

 lantern slides. 



Special Meeting, December 10, 1897. — Vice-President Greely in the chair. 

 Professor E. A. Grosvenor, of Amherst College, gave an illustrated lecture 

 on The Greek and the Turk : the Product of Geographic Environment. 



Elections. — New members have been elected as follows : 

 November IS.— C. F. Frederick Adam, S. M. Becker, R. G. Campbell, 

 Dr O. F. Cook, Miss Amelia R. Charles, L. A. Coolidge, R. B. Dashiell, 

 U. S. N., Assistant Naval Constructor David G. Fairchild, Edward M. 

 Fowler, George R. Ide, Miss Mary E. O'Connor, Lieut. J. G.. Ord, U. S. A., 

 Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, Alfred G. Safford, John Sherman, Dr Andrew H. 

 Smith, Mrs Sterling H. Smith, Walter T. Swingle, Mrs Horatio N. Taplin, 

 Miss Marion Thatcher, Mrs Julia C. Townsend, Rev. D. C. Weston, D.D., 

 J. VV. Witten, J. E. Woodman. 



November 24. — Mrs E. F. Adams, Albert Carry, Dr J. B. Gregg Custis, 

 Hon. J. L. Davenport, Miss Adelaide Fuller, Mrs E. C. Hobson, Miss 

 Annie E. Johnston, Rev. R. H. McKim, D.D., John Meigs, Jr., Gen. J. K. 

 Mizner, U. S. A., Mrs W. H. Osborn, Mrs M. C. Peabody, J. A. Pitman, 

 George W. Rouzer, Dr E. K. Sprague, S. Sugenheimer, Mrs Adelia L. S. 

 Thombs, Miss Ellen A. Vinton, Sanford N. Whitwell. 



Portuguese East Africa. A concession has been granted for the^con- 

 struction of a railway from Beira to Tete, with the object of developing 

 the Tete coal-fields. 



British Central Africa. The trade of Chinde, the port of British 

 Central Africa, at the mouth of the Zambesi, is said to be increasing rap- 

 idly. Chinde is now in direct telegraphic communication with Zomba 

 and Blantyre. 



Transvaal. The Industrial Commission reports that during 1896 out 

 of the 183 gold mines in the Transvaal 79 produced gold to the value of 

 £8,603,821. The remaining 104 produced no gold, most of them being 

 merely in process of development. Only 25 companies declared divi- 

 dends, the aggregate amount thus paid being £1,718,781. 



