PROCEEDINGS 



Oy THB 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



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1886- 



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January 5, 1886. 



The President, Dr. Leidy, in the chair. 



Twenty-six persons present. 



The death of J. B. Lippincott, a member, was announced. 



January 12. 

 Mr. Charles Morris in the chair. 



Fifteen persons present. 



A paper, entitled " New Species of Partula from the New 

 Hebrides and Solomon Islands," by Wm. D. Hartman, M. D., was 

 presented for publication. 



On the Morphology of superimposed Stamens. At the meeting 

 of the Botanical Section on January 11, Mr. Thomas Meehan 

 remarked that Sachs teaches that stamens " must be considered 

 morphologically as foliar structures, and make it convenient to 

 term them Staminal Leaves," ^ and Dr. Asa Gray defines a stamen 

 to be " one of the elements or phylla of the androecium."^ So far 



I Text Book, English ed., p. 473. 

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^ Structural Botany, p. 435. 



