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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
Mr. Merwin-Marie Snell presented a communication— 
Observations on Certain Hypnotic Experiments of the Comte 
de Maricourt. 
Mr. E. D. Cope presented a communication on The Relation 
of Consciousness to Animal Motion. 
322d Meeting. October 13, 1888. 
The President in the chair. 
Thirty-five members and guests present. 
The President announced the election to membership of 
Leland Ossian Howard and Louis Agricola Bauer. 
The following amendment to the constitution was offered by 
Mr. Asaph Hall : In Rule 3 strike out the words “ the ex- 
Presidents of the Society.” 
In accordance with the constitution, this was laid over for 
discussion and action at the annual meeting. 
The following communications were presented: 
On the Solar Parallax and its Related Constants, by Mr. Wil¬ 
liam Harkness. [Published in Washington Observations for 
1885, Appendix III.] 
Chemical Action between Solids, by Mr. William Hallock. 
Note on Certain Surfaces Feebly Sensitive to Light, by Mr. J. 
W. Osborne. (Read by Mr. Hallock.) 
323d Meeting. October 27, 1888. 
The President in the chair. 
Thirty-nine members and guests present. 
The special committee appointed on May 26, 1888, to draft 
resolutions commemorative of the late E. B. Elliott, presented, 
