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JANUARY TO DECEMBER, 1895.

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1895.

VOL. XXXIV.

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

5) JANUARY, 1895.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Stated Meeting, January 4, 1895....

Stated Meeting, January 18, 1895....

Stated Meeting, February 1, 1895...

Stated Meeting, February 15, 1895...

The Paris Book Exhibition of 1894. By J. G. Rosengarten..

Horologium Achaz (Christophorus Schissler, Artifex), (with four

plates). By Julius F. Sachse

Salishan Texts. By Franz Boas....

The Varying Ratio between Gold and Silver. By Frederick Prime.

The Significance of the Jugal Arch. By Daniel Denison Slade...

A Matter of Priority. By Patterson Du Bois....

The Protohistoric Ethnography of Western Asia. By Daniel G.

Brinton, M.D......

Biographical Sketch of the Hon. Thomas H. Dudley, of Camden,

N. J. (with one plate). By William John Potts.....

Fourth Contribution to the Marine Fauna of the Miocene Period of

the United States (with one plate). By E. D. Cope.....

Stated Meeting, March 1, 1895......

Stated Meeting, March 15, 1895..

Stated Meeting, April 5, 1895.

Stated Meeting, April 19, 1895..

Stated Meeting, May 3, 1895...

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