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other things, besides the phonograph. Edison had a clock with 

 a phonograph inside of it which in the morning would warn you 

 it was time to get up and if you were not then inclined to rise a 

 bugle call would be sounded almost immediately in your ear. The- 

 phonograph had been amalgamated with the graphophone. There 

 was a company called the United Phonographic Company, whicln 

 held the rights of the machines outside America and Canada, and 

 it was from that Company that he (Mr. Garland) obtained the- 

 two machines he then had. Edison was busily engaged in en- 

 deavouring to invent what he termed a collapsible cylinder, or a 

 cylinder that could be folded up. He claimed that when he had 

 achieved that, speech would supersede writing altogether in 

 ordinary correspondence. 



Mr. Garland then gave several illustrations of the capabilities^ 

 of the phonograph . 



The thanks of the Society were conveyed to Mr. Garland' for 

 his very interesting and instructive exhibit. 



The following donations were laid upon the table and! 

 acknowledged :— 



Donations Received during the month of August, 1890-. 



(The Names of the Donors are in Italics.) 



TRANSACTIONS, JOURNALS, REPORTS, &o. 



Albany — New York State Library. — Annual Report (72nd) 



of the Regents for the year ending Sept. 30, 1889. The Library.. 



Baltimore — Johns Hopkins University. American 

 Chemical Journal, Vol. xi., Nos. 6 and 7, 1889. 

 American Journal of Mathematics, Vol. xu., Nos. 

 1 and 2, 1889 and 1890, and Index to Volumes r - x. 

 American Journal of Philology, Vol. x., Nos. 2 and 

 3, 1889. Circulars, Vol. vin., No. 75, 1889 ; Vol. 

 ix., No. 82, 1890. Studies from the Biological 

 Library, Vol. iv., No. 5, 1889. The University.. 



Berlin — Centralbureau der Internationalen Erdmessung. 

 Verhandlungen, der 1889 in Paris abgehaltenen 

 neunten Allgemeinen Conferenz der Internationalen 

 Erdmessung. The Director* 



Gesellschaft fur Erdkunde. Verhandlungen, Band 



xvii., Nos. 4 and 5, 1890. The Society, 



K. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften. Sitzungs- 



berichte, Nos. 1 - 19, 9 Jan. - 10 April 1890. The Academy, 



Brisbane — Chief Weather Bureau. Climatological Tables, 

 Oct., Nov., Dec, 1889. Meteorological Synopsis, 

 Feb. to June, 1890. Table of Rainfall during the 

 months of Jan. to April, 1890. Weather Chart of 

 Australasia at 9 a.m., 28, 30 June, 1-5, 7 - 12, 14- 

 19,21-26,28-31 July, 1, 2, 4-9, 11-16,18,19, 

 21, 23, 25-29 August, 1890. Government Meteorologist. 



Cambridge ( Mass. ) — Cambridge Entomological Club. 



Psyche, Vol. v., No. 170, June, 1890. The Club. 



