PROCEEDINGS. 
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Mr. Herman Hollerith exhibited and described a new elec¬ 
trical tabulating machine. 
Description published in U. S. letters patent Nos. 395781, 
395782, 395783, January 8, 1889. 
352d Meeting. April 12, 1890. 
President Dutton in the chair. 
Forty-five members and guests present. 
Announcement was made of the election to membership of 
Charles Richard Van Hise, Ernest George Fischer, and Al¬ 
fred Charles True. 
Mr. J. R. Eastman read a paper on The Progress of Meteoric 
Astronomy. 
Published in this volume, pp. 275-358. 
By invitation, Prof. B. G. Wilder made a communication on 
The Comparative Anatomy of the Simian and Human Brain. 
Not published. 
353d Meeting. April 26, 1890. 
President Dutton in the chair. 
Forty-five members present. 
Mr. G. W. Littlehales read a paper on A New Method of 
Recording and Reproducing Articulate Speech. 
Published in U. S. letters patent No. 404,850. 
Mr. William Eimbeck read a paper on A New Method of 
Determining Astronomical Differences of Longitude. 
Not published. 
Mr. Romyn Hitchcock read a paper on The Burial Mounds of 
Japan. 
Published in the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 
1891. 
71—Bull. Phil. Soc., Wash., Vol. 11. 
