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Five hundred and eighty-fourth Meeting. 



June 11, 1867. — Adjouened Statute Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



A portion of the Annual Report of the Council was read. 



Professor Levering reported from the Rumford Committee 

 a recommendation that 200 dollars be paid by the Treasurer, 

 from the Rumford Fund, to Dr. Francis Dana, for services as 

 Assistant Treasurer during the ensuing year. The recom- 

 mendation was adopted. 



On the motion of Professor Levering it was voted to renew 

 the appropriation of 500 dollars, which was made last year to 

 complete the publication of Dr. Storer's Memoir. 



The following appropriations were voted : — 



For General Expenses, from the General Fund . $ 2,100 

 " " " from the Rumford Fund . 200 



For Publication 1,100 



For the Library ....... 600 



Dr. Charles Pickering was elected a member of the Council, 

 to fill a vacancy left at the annual election. 

 The following paper was communicated : — 



Characters of New Plants of California and Elsewhere^ prin- 

 cipally of those collected by H. N. Bolander in the State 

 Geological Survey. By Asa Gray. 



Ranunculus alism^folius, Geyer, var. alismellus : pusillus ; 

 caulibus subscapiformibus spitharaaeis ; foliis tenuioribus subovatis ob- 

 longisve (pollicaribus), petiolo stepius gracillimo. — Lake Tenayo and 

 on Mount Dana, Sierra Nevada, to the height of 12,000 feet, Bo- 

 lander. With the aspect of R. Flammula, has the ovary and style of 

 R. alismcefolius. 



Ranunculus Andersonii : R. glaciali similis, sed calyce glaber- 

 rirao, ovariis semiorbiculatis compressis immarginatis stylo nudo subu- 

 late recurvato terniinatis. Planta tripollicaris, aut tota glabra, aut basi 

 dilatata petiolorum lobisque foliorum pilis albidis deciduis parce ciliatis. 

 Flos poUieem diametro ; petalis saturate roseis ; sepalis margine ru- 

 bellis. Segmenta foliorum petiolulata. — Near snow, on Blind Springs 



