PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
This Society has its membership mainly among the Professors, Instructors,
and Post-graduate students of the University. It meets monthly for the reading
of papers of scientific and literary interest, the exhibition of experiments,
and discussion. All members of the University are eligible to membership.
There are no initiation fees or annual dues. The following is the list of papers
presented during 1892:
| DeMott, C. L., |
On Some Aluminium Tests. |
| Dinwiddie, A. B., |
Indirect Discourse in Thucydides. |
| Dunnington, F. P., |
Analysis of Tschernozem or Black Soil from Russia and Manitoba. |
| Dunnington, F. P., |
The Composition of Certain Washing Powders. |
| Echols, W. H., |
On Certain Determinant Forms and their Applications. |
| Findlay, C. R. L., |
A Recently Discovered Compound of Nickel with Carbon Monoxide. |
| Henneman, J. B., |
On the Spirit of Research and its Application to Virginian History. |
| Humphreys, M. W., |
On Certain Errors in Standard Greek Grammars. |
| Johnson, C. J., |
Assyriology and its Influence on Oriental Research. |
| Mallet, J. W., |
The Rate of Evaporation of Musk. |
| Mallet, J. W., |
On the Evidence of Interaction of Matter in the Solid State. |
| Radford, R. S., |
The Historical Present in Series. |
| Smith, F. H., |
Address as Retiring President. The Specialization of Scientific Research
considered as to some of its Possible Results. |
| Stone, O., |
Recent Observations of Mars. |
