THE APRIL MEETING, 1844 . 
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On the Importance of Physiology as a Branch of General Education. 
—Professor J. R. W. Dunbar, of Maryland. 
Exercises of the JS'intk Meeting, Monday Morning, April 8. 
Hon. John Q. Adams in the chair. 
Prayer, by the Rev. Mr. Bulfinch. 
The Corresponding Secretary announced the Societies and Colleges 
which had sent delegates to the meeting, and read a communication 
from the Hon. Levi Woodbury. He also read extracts of letters 
from the Rev. Dr. Wayland, President of Brown University, Rhode 
Island; from Dr. Foreman, of Baltimore; from Professor Johnson, 
of the Wesleyan University, Connecticut; and from Professor Tut- 
wiler, of Alabama—offering important suggestions to the National 
Institute. He also read a communication from George E. Chase, U. 
S. Army, of Pensacola, suggesting a method of settling the ortho¬ 
graphy and orthoephy of the English language ;—a paper from George 
Baker and I. Tburber, of Providence, containing a series of obser¬ 
vations on the tides in Providence River and Narragansett Bay, in 
1812 , communicated in the name of the Providence Franklin Society; 
—a paper from S. S. Haldeman, Professor of Zoology, Philadelphia, 
“On the necessity of a National Institution for the Encouragement of 
Science;’ 3 —a paper by Francis Leiber, L. L. B., of South Carolina, 
containing “Remarks on Public Executions ;”—a paper from Profes¬ 
sor J. Hamilton, of the University of Nashville, “On certain Meteor¬ 
ological Facts observed at Nashville;”—a communication from J. C. 
Pickett, U. S. Charge d’Affaires at Lima, Peru, giving an account 
of some remarkable ruins in the province of Chachapoyas, Peru ;—- 
and, a paper “On the Smithsonian Bequest,” by the Hon. Richard 
Rush, of Pennsylvania. 
On Meteorology.— Professor J. P. Espy, of Washington. 
A Call for Observations on the Late Storm.— Professor Robert 
Hare, of the University of Pennsylvania. (Read by A. D. 
Bache.) 
In Support of the Theory of One Electric Fluid, by an Explanation 
of the Phenomena of the Repulsion of Pith Bajls negatively 
electrified, he .—John Tyler , Jr., Washington , 
