130 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Four bundredtli meeting. 



May 9, 1854. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Dr. Kneeland exhibited to the Academy a large piece of the 

 bark of the Wellingiofiia gigantea, and a lithograph of one 

 of these immense trees executed in San Francisco. 



Professor Gray remarked that the bark resembled that of 

 the Southern Cypress, being, however, less fibrous and stringy. 

 He suspected that there would be found on this tree two 

 kinds of leaves, as in the Deciduous Cypress ; and was still 

 inclined to suppose that it is not generically distinct from 

 Sequoia, although the question can hardly be settled until the 

 male flowers are known. These specimens gave rise to an in- 

 teresting discussion on the age of this tree, and on the size 

 and age of large trees generally. 



" Voted, That the meeting of the fourth Tuesday of May be omitted, 

 on account of the proximity of the Annual Meeting." 



Four hundred, and first meeting. 



May 30, 1854. — Annual Meeting. 



The Vice-President in the chair, in the absence of the 

 President. 



Professor Lovering, from the Committee of Publication, 

 and Dr. Shurtleff, from the Library Committee, made verbal 

 reports of the operations of these committees. Dr. Shurtleff 

 announced that a complete card-catalogue of the Library had 

 been prepared. 



The report of the Treasurer was read, and his statement 

 of accounts was ordered to be entered on the records. 



The chair reported, from the committee raised to consider 

 the subject of lectures for the present year, that the com- 

 mittee deemed it inexpedient to arrange for a course of lectures 

 for the ensuing winter ; and the committee was discharged. 



The chair announced that the Academy had sustained the 

 loss of the following members by death during the last two 

 years, viz. : — 



