PROCEEDINGS. 
475 
Mr. Bigelow read a paper on The state of the Philosophical 
Society. [Not published.] 
It was discussed by Messrs. Mann, Gore, Clarke, Wead, 
Farquhar, Dall, Eastman, Baker, Adler, and the author. 
483d Meeting. April 2, 1898. 
The address of the retiring President, Mr. Marcus Baker, 
on A century of geography in the United States, was delivered 
at the Cosmos Club. [Published in this volume, pp. 223-240; 
also in Science, 1898, April 22, new series, vol. vii, no. 173, pp. 
541-551.] 
484th Meeting. April 16, 1898. 
President Bigelow in the chair. 
Twenty-two members present. 
Mr. C. C. Yates read a paper on Personal equation in esti¬ 
mating tenths. [For brief abstract of this paper see Science, 
1898, May 6, new series, vol. vii, no. 175, p. 647.] 
It was discussed by Messrs. Paul, Preston, Baker, Bigelow, 
Gore, and the author. 
Mr. G. W. Littlehales read a paper on The progress in trans¬ 
oceanic navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 
[For brief abstract of this paper see Science, 1898, May 6, new 
series, vol. vii, no. 175, p. 647.] 
Mr. Signe Rink read a paper on The origin of the Eskimo 
name for the white man. 
It was discussed by Messrs. Ball and Bigelow. 
485th Meeting. April 30, 1898. 
President Bigelow in the chair. 
Twenty-three members present. 
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