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were much given to species-making till convinced of error by cul- 
tivation of their plants. : 
Mr. H. T. Bickel read a short paper on the “ Pronunciation of 
Scientific Names” and gave instances of peculiar pronunciation. 
Mr. T. S. Brandegee read an account of his recent botanizing 
trip in the Tehachapi Mountains. 
Dr. H. W. Harkness exhibited specimens of galls and described 
their formation and the extraordinary deformities sometimes caused 
by them. : 
July 16, 189r. Vice President Mrs. Mary W. Kincaid in the 
chair. 
The following were elected to membership: Dr. C. L. Anderson, 
J. J. B. Argenti, Lyman Belding, Walter D. Bliss, J. W. Congdon, 
W. C. Cusick, Miss Clara G. Dolliver, Mrs. Emma Douglas, Miss 
Emily Edmunds, Mrs. W. B. Ewer, Miss Mary Grant, Miss Isabel 
L. Grant, Dr. V. Havard, Prof. T. L. Heaton, Miss Catherine H. 
Hittell, Thomas Howell, J. M. Hutchings, F. O. Johnson, Hon. W. 
W. Morrow, Mrs. W. W. Morrow, Miss Maud Morrow, Rev. J. C. 
Nevin, Dr. Edward Palmer, Mrs. Mary O. Stanton, Charles H. 
Townsend, Mrs. J. Renshaw Wilson. 
Mr. T. S. Brandegee read a paper on “ The Cactus Family,” 
their peculiar forms, distribution and mode of dissemination and 
the uses to which they are put by the inhabitants of the treeless re- 
gions of Lower California. The fruit of Cereus Thurberi known 
as “pitahaya dulce’ was highly praised. Attention was directed to 
their leaves and a Lower Californian species on which they are 
very conspicuous was described. The spreading of certain Opun- 
tias by means of sterile fruits, brittle joints, barbed spines, etc., was 
explained. 
NOTES. 
Charles V. Piper in Garden and Forest, iv, 181, writes concern- 
ing the Conifers of Mount Rainer—now usually called Mt. Tacoma 
—and in an appended note the editor remarks: “ Our correspond- 
ent’s discovery of Adies nobilis on Mount Ranier extends the north- 
an. range of the species, not known before north of the Columbia 
River, very considerably.” This is an oversight, as Adzes nobilis 
was collected by the botanists of the Northern Transcontinental 
