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PlilLOSOPIIICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
296Tn Meeting. \ January 29, 1887. 
The President in the Chair. 
Thirty-six members present. 
Announcement was made by the President of the death of Gen¬ 
eral William B. Hazen, a member of the Society, which took 
place at 8 p. m., January 16. 
Mr. F. W. Clarke read a paper entitled , 
THE PRESENT STATUS OF MINERALOGY. 
' [This paper is expected to appear in the Popular Science Monthly.] 
A paper by Mr. R. T. Hill, entitled 
THE TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY OF THE CROSS TIMBERS OF TEXAS,. 
was then read by Mr. W J McGee, as Mr. Hill had been called 
away from the city after his paper was jilaced upon the programme. 
[This paper appeared in full in the American Journal of Science, 3d 
series, 8°, New Haven 1887, April, vol. 33, pp. 291-303.] 
297th Meeting. February^ 12, 1887. 
The President in the Chair. 
Forty-one members and guests present. 
The President announced that Mr. Frank Hall Knowlton 
had been elected to and had accepted membership in the Society. 
A letter Avas read from the secretary of the Anthropological 
Society announcing that Mr. Alfred Russell Wallace would deliver 
an address Tuesday evening, February 15, on “ Social versus Polit¬ 
ical Economy ” before the Anthropological Society, and inviting 
the members of the Philosophical Society and their friends to be 
present on that occasion. 
Mr. H. A. Hazen made a communication on 
THE SKY' GLOW'S OF 1883. 
This communication Avas discussed by Messrs. Paul, E. Far- 
QUHAR, WiNLOCK, and the author. 
