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Regular Meeting, August 17th, 18G8, 

 President in the Chair. 



Fifteen members present. 



Mr. J. Silver, C. L. Houghton, and H. S. Crane were elected 

 resident members. 



Donations to the Cabinet: Black Oxide of Manganese, from 

 Calaveras County, by Dr. Gibbons; A Herbarium of eastern Medi- 

 cinal Plants, by Dr. McCormick, U. S. A. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Dr. McCormick for his 

 valuable donation. 



Donations to the Library: The Northwest Boundary, a Geo- 

 graphical Memoir of the Islands in dispute, by Hon. Archibald 

 Campbell, U. S. Commissioner, 8vo. Wash. 18G8, from W. P. 

 Blake. Physical Geography of the Kansas Pacific Railway. 

 Annuaire de la Societe des Sc. Nat. de Neuchatel. Notes- on 

 parts of South Devon and Cornwall. Amer. Jour, of Sc. and 

 Arts for July, 1868. Journal Roy. Horticul. Soc. of Lond., II, 

 5, 1868, 8vo. Annual of Bost. Soc. N. H. for 1868-9, 8vo. 



Mr. Bolander then de'livered a lecture on the Flora and Agri- 

 cultural resources of the country around Eureka, Humboldt Bay. 



Regular Meeting, September 7th, 1868. 

 Col. Ransom in the Chair. 



Seventeen members present. 



Dr. Lorenzo Hubbard was elected resident member. 



Donations to the Cabinet : Seed of the " Guinea Palm," from 

 New Mexico, by Dr. H. Gibbons. He stated that fie Teredo 

 never attacks the logs of this tree, and it might therefore be used 

 for piles in this city. A Collection of Plants, from New Caledonia, 

 by Prof. Meissner, of Basle, through Dr. Kellogg. A Collection of 

 Plants, by Rene Le Normand, of Vire, France. 



The thanks of the Academy were voted for these valuable col- 

 lections. 



