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Letters were read from various correspondents. 

 Publications received as follows : 



Annals of the N. Y. Lyceum of Nat. Hist.,Tol. viii., No. 11-12, from 

 the Society. Trans. Conn. Acad, of Arts and Sciences, vol. i., pt. 1, New- 

 Haven, 1866, from the Academy. Geol. Survey of Ills., vol. i., Geology, 

 A. H. Worthen, Director, from the Author. Memoirs of the Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. i., pt. 1; Proc, vol. x., pp. 353-368, from the Society; 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., No. 3, 1866, from the Academy. Canad. 

 Jour. Sci. and Art and Proc, No. 63, 1866, from the Society. Proc. 

 California Acad. Nat. Sci., vol. iii., pt. 3, 1866, from the Academy. 



Mr. R. Hayes stated some results of his observations on a 

 meteoric shoAver seen at Stoneham, Mass., on the nights of 

 the 10th and 11th of August, 1866. He pointed out espe- 

 cially that nearly all the meteors radiated from a certain point 

 of constant altitude— about N. 12° E., and 20°_ above the 

 horizon, and that while the stars rose, that point did not 

 change. His observations tended to show that the meteors 

 started from a fixed point in the heavens toward which the 

 earth was moving. 



Dr. Engelmann observed that between Aug. 31 and Sept. 

 26, there had fallen 13£ inches of rain, seven days only being 

 without rain in that time ; and that this had been the wettest 

 September he had ever observed here. 



Dr. Engelmann presented some specimens of parasitic 

 plants (monotropa umflora), and a fruit of Philodendron 

 pertusum, (a native of Brazil,) raised in Mr. Shaw's Botanic 

 Garden at St. Louis. 



October 15, 1865. 

 The President in the chair. 



Six members present. 



Dr. Engelmann presented for publication a communication 

 from Dr. C. C. Parry, which was read and referred to the 

 Committee on Publication. 



Henry P. Sartwell, M.D., of Penn Yan, New York, was 

 elected a Corresponding Member. 



November 5, 1866. 

 The President in the chair. 



Ten members present. 

 Several letters were read. 

 Publications were received as follows : 



Dublin Quar. Jour, of Sci., No. 23, 1866, from the Editor. Proc. Royal 

 Horticul. Soc. London Jour., vol. i., pt. 3, 1866 ; Proc, vol. i., No. 5, 

 from the Society. Proc Royal Soc. London, No. 78-86, from the Society. 

 Zoologische Miscellen. iv., Abbildung der Arten der Gattung Paludina 

 Lam.; Bericht iiber eine Sammelreise, von G. Ritter von Frauenfeld, 

 from the Author. Soci^te" Imp. Zool. d'Acclimatation : Bulletin, T. iii., 

 Nos. 8 9, 1866, Paris, from the Society. Soci^te' des Sciences Nat. de 



