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the jNIiuerals of Missisijuoi Valley, accoinpauicd with ex- 

 planations from nnnierons specimens. He presented 

 some specimens of aold which he had washed from the 

 alhivinm in Westlield. Also specimens of gold hearing- 

 rocks from the same locality. 



Drift. — Key. S. E. Hall, LL. D., made scmie observa- 

 tions on the Drift of Orleans and Franklin comities. He 

 had noticed stri.e and polished surfaces on the rocks on 

 the snnmiit of Jay Peak over four thousand feet high. 

 iNFany boulders from the sandstone formation in Frank- 

 lin county had come over the peaks of the highest moun- 

 tains and were distributed over Orleans county and far- 

 ther southward even as far as Windsor. He made fur- 

 ther observations on the gold and serpentine rocks in 

 the Missis(iuoi Valley, there was scarcely a stream in that 

 section that "-old could not be washed from its l)ed, but 

 not in sufficient (juantities to pay expences. 



(JJimmile. — liev. T. Mackie made some observations 

 on the specimens of chromite which were presented to 

 the Society by Thomas Trumpass. 



Dendritic Pehhtes. — J, ^I. Currier presented several 

 specimens of denritic })ebl)les from the alluvial deposits 

 in I)erl)y near Lake Memphremagog, and remarked upon 

 their origin. 



Botanij. — Mrs. A. A. Smith read a paper on strn<-tnral 

 botany with a view to the encouragement of a more gen- 

 eral study of that branch of science. 



(Jrijptofjauiia . — T. M. ( "urrier remarked u})on the cryp- 

 toaamia of this reirion, and exhil)ited some illustrative 

 microscopic specimens. 



Acting Members. — Timothy Holt, (ico. F. Legget and 

 S. J. Dcmaidson, M. 1)., of Derby, F. Harrington of 

 (V)ventrv, Kcv. Thomas Mackie, A. H. Richardson and 



