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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
540th Meeting. November 9, 1901. 
Vice-President Adler in the chair. 
Thirty-one persons present. 
The election and qualification of Messrs. W. H. Burger and 
Daniel L. Hazard were announced. 
Mr. Hinton continued the presentation begun at the last 
meeting. 
Mr. G-. M. Sternberg read a paper on Health conditions in 
the Philippines. He stated that the health of the troops has 
been constantly improving; smallpox has been practically 
stamped out; typhoid and malarial fevers and heat-stroke are 
almost unknown. Dysentery is one of the most serious troubles; 
so at most of the barracks distilled or sterilized water is supplied. 
[Not published.] 
In the discussion that followed Mr. Dale spoke of the fact 
that in Alaska mosquitoes of several kinds are very abundant/but 
there is no malaria. 
Mr. C. Adler reported on the progress on the International 
Catalogue of Scientific Literature. The plans adopted by the 
Conference in 1900 are that each country is to index the literature 
published within its borders pertaining to 17 specified subjects; 
this material is to be arranged and published by the Royal So¬ 
ciety in 17 volumes annually. About 300 sets have been sub¬ 
scribed for at £1 per volume, 65 of them in the United States. 
The indexing begins with publications of 1901, and the Smith¬ 
sonian Institution has undertaken the work for this country. 
Numerous questions regarding details of the work were answered 
by the speaker. [Not published.] 
541st Meeting. November 23, 1901. 
President Walcott in the chair. 
Nineteen persons present. 
Mr. W. H. Dall spoke on The true nature of Tamiosoma. 
This fossil, found in California, was named by Conrad in 1856, 
