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This Section may feel well satisfied with its year's 

 work, for it has made valuable contributions to the sum 

 of scientific knowledge, and its papers and discussions 

 have been exceedingly interesting and instructive. 



At the annual meeting of the Scientific Section, held 

 April 23, 1884, Prof. W. B. Dwight was reelected chair- 

 man, and Mr. C. N. Arnold was reelected recording 

 -secretary. 



The following papers and discussions were given be- 

 fore the Literary Section during the season of 1883-84 : — 



1883 — October 30. "Literary Value of Scientific Knowledge" 



Rev. E. A. Lawrence, Jr. 



November 13. "Galileo Galilei" \ Jaraes Nilan > DD - 



( Mr. Henry Bartlett. 



November 20. "Chief Justice Marshall". .J. Hervey Cook, Esq. 



December 10. "Poetry of Matthew Arnold." 



James M. DeGarmo, Ph.D. 



December 18. "The Scientific Basis of Morals." 



Hon. John Thompson. 



1884 — January 15. "Communism" — j Mr. L. F. Gardner. 



pro and con. { Rev. S. H. Synnott. 



January 22. "John C. Calhoun" Edward Elsworth, Esq. 



T , OQ \ "Abraham Lincoln" E. S. Atwater, Esq. 



j anuary &&. -, ,-* ., ^ .„, _ , _ 



J ( " Aaron Burr " S. W. Buck, Esq. 



February 12. "Richelieu" Rev. C. W. Millard. 



[W. G. Stevenson, M.D. 

 February 19. "Wendell Phillips". . . < James Nilan, D.D. 



[A. P. Van Gieson, D.D. 

 February 26. "A Study of the Last Census." 



H. V. Pelton, Esq. 



March 11. "Monopolies" Truman J. Backus, L.L.D. 



March 18. " Daniel Webster" . .. ....Mr. Edward Burgess. 



March 25. "Emerson and Carly^e" Irving Elting, Esq. 



These papers were of a high order of excellence, and 

 the work of the Section is commended to the public as 

 worthy of encouragement and support. 



At the annual meeting of this Section, Mr. Henry V. 

 Pelton was elected chairman, and Mr. James H. Hamill, 

 recording secretary. 



The Art Section has adopted a plan of work and 



