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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 1893:

                   

H. J. Boyd,	On the Mutton Bird.
F. P. Dunnington,	A Method of Cleansing Domestic Water-Filters by the use of Potassium Permanganate.
James M. Garnett,	On the Recently-Discovered Gospel of St. Peter.
M. W. Humphreys,	On the Mimiambics.
John W. Mallet,	The Optical Principles of a Compound Microscope.
T. C. Mendenhall,	The Use of the Pendulum in the Determination of the Form and Density of the Earth.
J. A. Roelofsen,	On the Solubility of Tartar in Alcohol of Various Strengths.
Ormond Stone,	Observations of Comet Holmes.
Wm. M. Thornton,	Events in the Early History of the University connected with the Life of Thomas Hewitt Key, Professor of Mathematics 1825-1827.
Wm. M. Thornton,	On University Extension.