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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
473d Meeting. October 30, 1897. 
President Baker in the chair. 
Thirty-four members present. 
Announcement was made of the death, on October 18, 1897, 
of Mr. Newton Lemuel Bates. 
Mr. R. T. Hill read a paper on Geographic changes in trop¬ 
ical America in late geologic time. [Published in Bulletin of 
the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cam¬ 
bridge, 1899, September, vol. xxxiv (geological series, vol. iv), 
pp. 198-224.] 
It was illustrated by maps and diagrams and discussed by 
Mr. Bailey Willis. 
Mr. McGee opened a discussion on the Two Associations for 
the Advancement of Science, viz., the American and the British. 
The discussion was continued by Messrs. PIarkness, Gill, Dall, 
Bigelow, and Wiley. 
474th Meeting. November 13, 1897. 
President Baker in the chair. 
Seventeen members present. 
Mr. Bigelow read a communication on The probable state of 
the sky along the eclipse track of May 28, 1900. [Published in 
Monthly Weather Review, 4°, Washington, 1897, September, 
vol. xxv, pp. 394-395; also separately by the Weather Bureau 
as “ W. B. no. 142.”] 
It was discussed by Messrs. Abbe, Bigelow, Birnie, and 
Baker. 
Mr. J. Howard Gore read a paper on the Antwerp nations— 
profit-sharing labor organizations. 
It was discussed by Messrs. Watkins, Blount, Wead, Baker, 
and the author. 
