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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
Mr. G. E. Curtis made a communication on The Rain-making 
Experiments in Texas. 
Published in Nature, vol. 44, October 22, 1891, p. 594. 
A general discussion followed, participated in by Messrs. Fer- 
now, Clarke, Hallock, Riley, McGee, and Abbe. 
Mr. F. V/. Clarke made a communication on The Gem 
Localities of Maine, with exhibition of specimens. 
Not published. 
374th Meeting. October 24, 1891. 
President Mendenhall in the chair. 
Thirty members and guests present. 
Mr. Frank H. Bigelow presented An Account of the Experi¬ 
ments for Eliminating the Error of Personal Equation from 
Stellar Transits by Photography, with exhibition of instruments 
and photographic negatives. 
Published in the January number of the New Sidereal Mes¬ 
senger and Astrophysical Journal. 
Remarks on this communication were made by Messrs. Hark- 
ness, Paul, and Winlock. 
Governor John W. Hoyt (of Wyoming) gave An Account of 
the Present Status and Prospects of the Project for a National 
University. 
Remarks upon this communication were made by Mr. F. W. 
Clarke. 
Mr. Thomas Wilson read a paper on The National Postal and 
School Savings Bank System of Belgium. Not published. 
Remarks were made by Messrs. Hill and Mann. 
375th Meeting. November 7, 1891. 
President Mendenhall in the chair. 
Thirty-four members and guests present. 
The first paper of the evening was read by Mr. E. M. Gal- 
laudet on Values in the Education of the Deaf. 
