AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. 
NINETEENTH MEETING OF THE dapat ASS@CIATION FOR THE ÅD- 
VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, HELD aT Troy, N. Y., AUGUST l7TH-4TH. 
87 [Abstracts iie papers esi from the October Nwmnber.] 
ve a short account of some researches into the 
Strait were essentially the same, while many of the adjectives, verbs 
and prepositional terminations differed in tribes which were closely adja- 
cent. He then gave a description of the multiform changes of the term- 
ination of the verbs, showing that the Eskimo of Repulse Bay had, in the 
indicative mood of a transitive verb, five forms, only one of which (the 
present) had an exact equivalent in English. 'They were the present 
form or tense; the past imperfect, indicating an action just MM qp 
the past perfect, indicating an action performed long ago; the future, re- 
lating to an action about to be performed; and the future perfect, whic 
denoted an action to be performed in some future time 
The termination alaha with the singular. dual di plural numbers, 
and the various cases of subject and object, result in a total number of 
indicative mood is eleven hundred and ninety, and of the whole verb is 
over three thousand one hundred, including the affirmative, negative, and 
eid be forms. The non-transitive verbs have a smaller number. 
T “to be” and “to have” are identical and possess very few 
ED also gave an account of the anatomical characters of the 
e plum 
cordon of lamellar gills all around the bo y. His recent investigation of 
the anatomy of many species, principally from the American coasts, had 
Shown that the value of these distinctions was less than had b een here- 
the Li 
il sub wW 
respectively bear the names of Abranchiata, and ee The 
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