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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
Mr. G. E. Curtis read a paper on The Hot Winds of the Plains. 
Published in the Seventh Triennial Report of the Kansas 
State Board of Agriculture, part 2, 1891, pp. 162-183. 
Remarks were made by Messrs. Bigelow and Hazen. 
Mr. O. T. Mason read a paper on The Study of Religions by 
the Methods of Natural History. 
Not published. 
Remarks were made by Messrs. E. Farquhar, Mussey, and 
MASon. 
Mr. J. E. Watkins read a paper entitled The Log of the Savan¬ 
nah, a Pioneer Transatlantic Steamship. 
363d Meeting. January 17, 1891. 
President Mendenhall in the chair. 
Thirty-four members present. 
The following standing committees were announced: 
On Communications: 
G. Brown Goode. 
F. W. Clarke. 
H. M. Paul. 
On Publications: 
Robert Fletcher. 
Marcus Baker. 
W. A. De Caindry. 
W. C. WlNLOCK. 
The Chair announced the death of the oldest and one of the 
most eminent members of the Society, Mr. George Bancroft, 
the great historian, who died January 17 in this. city. 
Mr. H. A. Hazen read a paper on The Lawrence (Massachu¬ 
setts) Tornado of July 26, 1890. 
Published in the Monthly Weather Review, July, 1890. 
Remarks were made by Messrs. Curtis, Green, Paul, Hazen, 
Eastman, and Bigelow. 
