4?4 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
Mr. H. A. Hazen read a paper on Weather folk-lore, its origin 
and value. 
It was discussed by Messrs. Bigelow, Sternberg, Ball, 
Green, and the author. 
Mr. W. H. Ball read a paper on The condition of Tertiary 
paleontology in the United States. [Not published.] 
481st Meeting. March 5, 1898. 
President Bigelow in the chair. 
Nineteen members present. 
The Secretary read a paper prepared by Mr. A. Lindenkohl 
on The specific gravity of the waters of the northeast Pacific 
ocean. [Published in U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Report 
for 1898, Appendix no. 10; also in Petermann’s Mittheilungen, 
1897, heft xii; also in Science, 1898, Becember 30, new series, 
vol. viii, no. 209, pp. 941-944.] 
It was discussed by Messrs. Ball, Preston, Littlehales, and 
the author. 
Mr. F. H. Bigelow read a paper on The results of balloon 
ascensions in determining the temperature of the air. [Pub¬ 
lished in International Cloud Report, 1899, p. 750.] 
It was discussed by Messrs. Hazen, Tittmann, Ball, and the 
author. 
482d Meeting. March 19, 1898. 
President Bigelow in the chair. 
Twenty-six members present. 
Announcement was made of the election to membership of 
William Candler Hodgkins. 
Mr. H. Friedenwald read a paper on The Beclaration of 
Independence: A summary of colonial grievances. [Not pub- 
linhecL] 
