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geneous state of the temperate flora as itself a resulting, not 

 an original condition. Still less, therefore, could he coincide 

 with Professor Agassiz, in regarding the actually present 

 distribution, with all its dislocations, as a primitive state. 

 Whether a much larger number of species than now were 

 ever common to Japan and to New England, and whether 

 these at any one time inhabited the whole intermediate 

 ground, appeared to him uncertain, and was unnecessary 

 to suppose ; but he had no idea that recent migration had 

 anything to do in accounting for the present existence of 

 the same species in such widely separated stations. 



Four bundred and fifty-niutli meeting'. 



January 26, 1859. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from the Royal 

 Belgian Academy, Brussels, acknowledging the reception of 

 publications from the American Academy, and presenting its 

 own recent Memoirs. Also, a letter from the President of the 

 Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, announcing 

 the intended celebration of the centennial anniversary of the 

 foundation of that society on the 28th of March ensuing, and 

 inviting the participation of the American Academy. 



On motion of Mr. Winthrop, seconded by Professor Felton, 

 Dr. Charles Beck, being now in Europe, was appointed to 

 represent this Academy upon that occasion. 



Professor John Lindley was elected a Foreign Honorary 

 Member, in Class II. Section 2 (Botany), to fill the vacancy 

 made by the decease of the late Robert Brown. 



Sir William E. Logan, Director of the Geological Survey 

 of Canada, was elected an Associate Fellow, in Class II. 

 Section 1 (Geology, &c.). 



William Watson Goodwin, Ph. D., of Cambridge, was 

 chosen a Resident Fellow, in Class III. Section 2 (Philol- 

 ogy, &c.). 



