NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 289 



September 4th. 



Prof. Carson in the Chair. 

 Thirteen members present. 



September lltJi. 

 Mr. Cassin, Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 Twenty members present. 

 Mr. Thomas Meehao remarked : 



I present to the Academy specimens of Pinus pungens, Michaux, gathered by 

 me on the east side of the Schuylkill River, in the Blue Mountain Ridge, near 

 Hamburg, in Berks County, about 75 miles from Philadelphia by the Reading 

 Railroad. 



The greater part of the Pine here is of Pinus mops', with a few of P. rigida. 

 The P. pungent is scattered here and there amongst them. Further up towards 

 Port Clinton I saw it in comparatively large quantity, and on the opposite or 

 west side of the River, so far as I could judge by the appearance of the wood, 

 it seemed very abundant. 



The discovery east of the Susquehanna is interesting from its formerly sup- 

 posed limited location on Table Mountain, North Carolina, by Michaux. Mr. 

 Loudon subsequently noticed its discovery in the Blue Ridge, in Virginia, and 

 more recently Prof. Porter, as recorded in the Proceedings of this Institution, 

 discovered it sparingly in the Alleghanies, near Huntingdon. 



A very old collecter of plants, whom I accidentally met some few years ago at 

 Allentown, assured me that he had seen specimens .many years past in the 

 Blue Mountains, near there, but I supposed at that time he was probably mis- 

 taken. Its discovery now in the same ridge, leads to the probability that it is 

 by no means a local species, but may most likely be found scattered along the 

 mountain slopes from North Carolina to the Delaware. 



In favorable situations it would probably become a larger tree than Pinus 

 inops. I measured one standing by the road side that was 5 feet in circumfe- 

 rence, about four feet from the ground. The tree was apparently 50 feet high. 



Dr. Leidy exhibited specimens of a large Coccus on the Black Oak, 

 Quercus tiuctoria. 



Mr. Cassiu remarked that the Crotophaga a?ii, from *Edenton, N. 

 C., presented this evening by Dr W. A. B. Norcom, though a com- 

 mon West Indian bird, was the third specimen, of which he had any 

 knowledge, that had been procured in the United States. 



September ISth. 



Mr. Vaux, Vice President, in the Chair. 



Twenty-two members present. 



The death was announced of Dr. A. A. Gould, of Boston, a cor- 

 respondent of the Academy. 



September 25th. 

 The President, Dr. Hays, in the Chair. 

 Twenty members present. 

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