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disease. The plate illustrates pollen oi Ambrosia and SoUdago. 

 Plants—The earliest. Sir Wm. Dawson. (Pop. Sci. Month., 

 xxxii., pp. 787-795 ; illustrated by six. figures.) 



Relation of Sarracenia purpurea to S. variolaris. — W. P. Wilson. 

 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1888, pp. 10, 11.) 

 Professor Wilson concludes from the facts that the first leaves 

 of these species "are perfect miniatures of each other," and that 

 the abundant nectar secreting glands of S. variolaris are repre- 

 sented by inactive or rudimentary structures in S. purpirea, that 

 the latter is a retrograde development from the former. 

 Typha.—]. Schneck. (Bot. Gaz., xiii, p. 98.) 



The author calls attention to the use of the leaves when dried 



for making tight the joints of headings and between the staves of 

 barrels. 



Uredi7ie(2.—New Western,—^. M. Tracy and B. T. Galloway. 



(Journ. Mycol 



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Histology.— E. S. Bastin. (W^ 



1-4, continued.) 

 Vegetable Cell 



G. L. Goodale. (Am. J 



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filifera. — C. S. Sargent. (Garden and Forest, i., pp. "]%, 



79. figs. 13, 14.) 



Proceedings of the Club 



The regular monthly meeting was held in Hamilton Hall, 

 Columbia College, April 10, 1888, President Newberry in the 

 chair and eighteen persons present. 



Mrs. Annie Chambers-Ketchum, Mrs. Edw. Heylyn, Rev. 

 Geo. D. Hulst, Prof. Thos. C. Porter and Wm. Bryce, Jr., were 

 elected active members. 



Miss Isabel Mulford, of Vassar College, Miss H. J. Biddle- 

 come, of Columbus, Ohio, Miss Cutter, of Lee, Mass., and Edwin 

 Faxon, Cambridge, Mass., were elected corresponding members. 



burg, Miss A. B. Rich and Arthur Rollick. 



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Dr. H. H. Rusby presented a letter from H. B. Harris, Third 



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