PROCEEDINGS. 
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Mr. Baker presented some notes on The origin of the dollar 
symbol. [An abstract of this communication was published in 
the Independent, 1899, March 16, vol. li, pp. 756-757.] 
It was discussed by Messrs. Martin, Blount, H. Farquhar, 
Birnie, Gore, and the author. 
475th Meeting. November 27, 1897 
President Baker in the chair. 
Twenty-eight members present. 
Announcement was made of the election to membership of 
Herbert Friedenwald. 
Mr. George M. Sternberg read a paper on The Twelfth Inter¬ 
national Medical Congress. [Not published.] 
Mr. O. H. Tittmann read a paper on A year’s work of the In¬ 
ternational Bureau of Weights and Measures. 
It ’was discussed by Messrs. Harkness, Wead. Eimbeck, 
Henry Farquhar, and Baker. 
Mr. George P. Merrill read a paper on The Seventh Inter¬ 
national Congress of Geologists. [Not published.] 
It was illustrated by maps and photographs. 
476th Meeting. December 11, 1897 
TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 
President Baker in the chair. 
Twenty-six members present. 
Announcement was made of the election to membership of 
Mr. George Colton Maynard. 
The minutes of the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting were read 
and adopted. 
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