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At the second and third meetings, papers were read by Dr. 



Mr. Fernow. Mr 



Foster, Prof. Van Deman and Mn Hopkins on various botanical 



• topics. 



Proceedings of the Ciub» 



Owing to the severity of the storm, for the first time in its 

 history the Club failed to hold its regular meeting. On Tuesday, 



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March 20th, a special meeting was held, at which the president 

 presided and thirty persons attended. 



A letter from Joseph Jackson was read, giving an account of 

 the botanical work of the Worcester Natural History Society, 

 stating that Mr. J. Chauncey Lyford was delivering a course of 

 lectures illustrated with lantern slides, duplicates of which he 

 would be pleased to loan or exchange ; also a letter from Miss 

 Jane H. Newell, accompanied by pamphlets entitled '* Outlines 

 of Lessons in Botany," which she will be glad to send to any 

 teacher who will use them and give her the benefit of the results 

 attained, with criticisms and suggestions. Price, 15 c. each. 



Miss Steele reported on behalf of the Herbarium Committee 

 the completion of the work on the herbarium of the late Wm. H. 

 Leggett, and stated that all material received up to date had been 

 mounted and put in order. 



The "secretary read a letter from Mrs. Gray, acknowledging 

 the receipt of the resolutions of sympathy and condolence from 

 the Club. 



Dr. Newberry remarked on the geological history of Lirioden- 

 dron, and exhibited drawings of a new species from the Laramie 

 of Colorado. 



The following papers were read as announced: 



'' A Preliminary Notice of the Pteridophyta Collected by Dr. 



H. H. Rusby in South America during the years 1885 and 1886.'' 



By Mrs, N. L. Britton. 



"On a New Variety oi Erythro?iitim:' By E. E. Sterns, 

 The Rev. Thomas Morong complimented Dr. Rusby on the 

 excellence of his specimens and the r -nber of species of ferns 

 represented in the collection, and gave an outline of his proposed 

 trip to the Argentine Republic and Chili and the headwaters of 

 the Parana and Uruguay rivers. 



