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From this report, which I received since this paper was begun, it will 

 be perceived that although the amount of woodland in Kendall, Greene, 

 McLean, Marion, Perry, Pulaski, Williamson and Hardin, is not given, 

 tliat we have over a million acres more woodland than reported by the 

 census of 1870. The Assessor's report should include all woodlands en- 

 closed or not. Adding the acres here reported of woodland and forest 

 and the acres of woodland assigned the counties first named, in 1870, we 

 have the following result : 



Acres Woodland, 1873 6,289,236 



•' Orchard " 320,702 



Woodland in Kendall, etc., in 1870 452,137 



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7,062,075 



Nearly twenty per cent, of Illinois territory, at the lowest estimate, 

 may therefore be reckoned as in trees of some kind. 



I would call the attention of the Society to this first enumeration of 

 our orchards and woodlands by the Assessors, with the hope that they 

 will use their personal influence to secure accurate returns, so that we 

 may know from year to year the progress our State is making in the 

 two very useful branches of fruit growing and forest culture. 



Respectfully submitted. 



W. C. FLAGG. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Prof. E. S. Morse, of Salem, Mass., being present, was invited to 

 address the meeting ; which he did for about fifteen minutes. His theme 

 was the fertilization of flowers as effected by the agency of bees and other 

 insects ; which he showed with great clearness and facility, both by his 

 descriptions, and by rapidly-executed illustrations upon the blackboard. 

 Among other interesting facts, he described and pictured some varieties 

 of flowers which could not be fertilized by any other known agency 

 except the insects ; and in case of some of the Orchids, one species of 

 insect only, of a peculiar formation, could get access to the flowers so as 

 to accomplish the work. This insect breeds and lives in and upon the 

 plants. But no description of this brief, interesting lecture can be made 

 intelligible without engravings of the illustrations which accompanied it. 



The thanks of the Society were unanimously awarded him for his 

 instructive entertainment ; and at five o'clock the meeting adjourned 

 until half past seven. 



