336 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



trees habitually grow most on the side on which the most 

 favoring influences predominate. On the sea-coast the trees 

 naturally grow most freely on the land side. 



The following gentlemen were elected Resident Fellows, 

 viz. : — 



Professor Henry W. Torrey of Cambridge, in Class III., 

 Section 3. 



Rev. N. L. Frothingham, in Class III., Section 4. 



Benjamin A. Gould, in Class III., Section 2. 



E. A. Sophocles, in Class III., Section 2. 



Dr. C. H. F. Peters, in Class I., Section 2- 



Henry James Clark, in Class II., Section 3. 



Four liundred and tliirty-tliird meeting. 



December 9th, 1856. — Adjourned Quarterly Meeting. 



The Academy met at the house of the President. The 

 President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from the Rev. N. 

 L. Frothingham, accepting the Fellowship ; from the Imperial 

 Academy of Sciences, Vienna, March 10th and April 15th, ac- 

 knowledging the receipt of the Academy's publications ; from 

 the Zoological and Botanical Association, Vienna, May 10th 

 the Royal Society of Sciences at Upsal, November 16th, 1855 

 the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, March 6th 

 the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhine Coun- 

 tries and Westphalia, Bonn, January 12th; the Imperial Geo- 

 logical Society, Vietma, March 20th ; the Imperial Academy 

 of Sciences, Vienna, May 23d and July 16th, presenting their 

 various publications ; from the Society of Physics and Natu- 

 ral History, Geneva, March 11th, in acknowledgment of the 

 receipt of the Academy's publications, and presenting its own, 

 with a circular, offering the fifth annual botanical prize on the 

 foundation of De Candolle. 



The President read a paper on the probable cause and 

 nature of the death of Pliny the Elder, taking the ground, in 



