PROCEEDINGS. 
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Mr. Henry Farquhar made a communication on The price 
of silver. [Not published. Paper on same subject read before 
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1893. 
For three-line abstract see Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. of 42d meet¬ 
ing, held at Madison, Wis., August, 1893. 8°, Salem, 1894, p. 355.] 
Remarks were made by Messrs. Mendenhall, Atkinson, Hark- 
ness, and Farquhar. 
Mr. M. H. Doolittle made a communication entitled Is there 
a criterion of objective reality ? 
On this paper remarks were made by Messrs. Edward Far¬ 
quhar, Henry Farquhar, and Professor Abbe. 
406th Meeting. May 13, 1893. 
Vice-president Fletcher in the chair. 
Twenty-six members present. 
Announcement was made of the election to membership of 
Timothy William Stanton. 
Mr. E. D. Preston read a paper entitled Remarks on the 
method of reducing the Waikiki observations for changes of lati¬ 
tude, with results. [Published in Publications of the Astro¬ 
nomical Society of the Pacific. 8°, San Francisco, 1893, vol. 5, 
no. 30; also slightly amplified and published as Bulletin no. 27 
of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 8°, Washington, 1893, 
pp. 9-20.] 
This was discussed by Messrs. Paul, Harkness, Bigelow, 
Mendenhall, Henry Farquhar, and Preston. 
Mr. F. H. Cushing made a communication on Ancient Pueblo 
arches. 
This was discussed by Messrs. Diller and Mindeleff. 
Mr. Cleveland Abbe read a paper on The formation of rain. 
[Not published.] 
The paper was not concluded before the hour of adjournment 
arrived. 
