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Johns Hopkins University; Dr Marcus Benjamin, Hon. A. R. Spofford, 

 Dr Caroline A. Yale, Professor S. P. Langley, Hon. John W. Ross, Major 

 J. W. Powell, and General A. W. Greely. 



Regular Meeting, January 28, 1898. — President A. Graham Bell in the 

 chair. Mr N. H. Darton gave an illustrated lecture on the Bad Lands of 

 South Dakota and Nebraska. ♦ 



Elections. — New members have been elected as follows : 



December 14- — Miss Mary 0. Dean, Mrs Annis H. Enochs, Lieut. C. D. 

 Galloway, U. S. N., Alexander Grant, Mrs Gardiner G. Hubbard, E. G. 

 Kimball, Gerard H. Matthes, E. W. Nelson, Professor Henry S. Pritchett, 

 Charles H. Stevenson, Miss Mary A. Taylor. 



December 27.— -Elmer I. Applegate, Major E. S. Godfrey, TJ. S. A., Wil- 

 liam Ogilvie, W. H. Wiley. 



December 31. — Dr Arthur M. Edwards, F. F. Hilder, Professor W. H. 

 Norton. • 



January 7, 1898.— Miss Rachel C. Brown, Cyrus L. Hall, Dr F. C. Ken- 

 yon, Miss A. M. Lakeman, Heber J. May. 



January 14.— William Churchill, S. F. Emmons, Miss Margaret French. 



January 24- — MissMabelle Biggart, Miss Mira Lloyd Dock, Levi Maish, 

 Daniel P. Mumbrue, August Piepho. 



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Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel. Nortli America, Vol. I ; 

 Canada and Newfoundland. By Samuel Edward Dawson. Pp. 719, 

 with 18 maps and 90 illustrations. London: Edward Stanford. 1897. 



This work forms part of a revision of Stanford's Compendium, the first 

 edition of which was published in 1883. In that edition Canada and the 

 United States occupied one volume. In the present the Dominion occu- 

 pies, with Newfoundland, one large volume, being more than doubled in 

 size. The book is simply a geographical description of the British pos- 

 sessions in North America. Its first chapter, after the introduction, de- 

 scribes the American side of the north Atlantic. Then the Dominion of 

 Canada is taken up as a whole — its extent, area, boundaries, relief, drain- 

 age system, climate, fauna, Indian tribes, political organization, popula- 

 tion, means of communication, government, history, and industries. 

 Each of the provinces is then described under much the same plan, but 

 in greater detail, in succeeding chapters. This method of description 

 involves much repetition, greatly and unnecessarily extending the book. 

 An interesting chapter is included in the history of Acadia. The illus- 

 trations and maps are excellent and the type and paper all that could be 

 desired. Altogether, the work, as a description of our northern neighbor, 

 is easily the best yet published. It is curious to find, however, at this 

 late date any one gravely contending for the preposterous claims of Great 



