JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



of Leavenworth, Superintendent of Public Instruction in the 

 State of Kansas, was elected a Corresponding Member. 



September 1, 18 05, 



The President, Dr. Engelmann, in the chair. 

 Six members present. 

 Publications received, were laid upon the table, as follows: 



Annuaire de l'Universite Catholique de Louvain, 1864; Programme des 

 Cours, 1864-5 ; — Dissertationes : De Hyperdulia ; De Jure Ecclesiaj ; De 

 Processionne Spiritus Sancti ; — Theses: de Theol., 279-291; de Med. 

 60-62; de Phil, et Lettres, 14-15; des Sciences, de Droit, 1864; Proc. 

 Royal Horticultural Soc. London, vol. v., June, 1865, from the Society. 

 Natur.-hist. Verein der Preuss. Rheinl. u. Westphalens : Verhandl. xxi., 

 Jahrg. 1-26, Bonn, 1864 ; Bulletin de la Socicte' Vaudoise des Sciences 

 Nat., T. viii., No. 52, Lausanne, 1865, from the Society. Wiirzburger 

 Med. Zeitschrift, vi. Band, 1-2 Heft, 1865, from the Editors. L'Acade'mie 

 Imp. des Sciences, Belles Lettres et Arts de Dijon : Memoires, T. xi. and 

 xiii., 1862-3; Bulletin, 1865, from the Academy. Defence des Colonies : 

 iii. Etude Generale sur nos Etages G. et H, etc., par Joachim Barrande, 

 1864, from the Author. Accademia delle Scienze dell' Istituto di Bologna : 

 Memorie, T. iii &iv., fasc. 1; Rendiconti, 1863-4, from the Academy. 



Dr. Engelmann stated that he had received a letter from 

 Dr. Elliot Cones, now in Arizona, concerning the geographi- 

 cal distribution of the Cactus flora, and particularly the Ce- 

 reus giganteics Eng., and saying he had travelled live days 

 through a district in which very remarkable forms of this 

 plant prevailed. 



September 18, 1865. 



The President, Dr. Exgelmann, in the chair. 

 Seven members present. 

 Publications received : 



Amer. Jour, of Sci. and Arts, No. 119, Sept., 1865: Annals of the Ly- 

 ceum of Nat. Hist. New York, vol. viii., No. 4-5, 1865, from the Society. 

 Der Zoologische Garten, vi. Jahrg. No. 1-6, 1865, from the Society. 

 Naturf. Gesellsehaft in Danzig : Schriften, i. Band, 2 Heft, 1865, from the 

 Society. Verein fiir Naturkunde zur Presburg : Correspondenz-blatt, 

 ii. Jahrg, 1863, from the Society. Wiirtemburgische Naturw. Jahreshefte, 

 xx. 2, 3, 1864 ; xxi. 1, 1865, from the Society. Naturw. Verein des Harzes 

 zuBlankenburg: Berichte, 1861-2, from the Society. Prize List of the Ag- 

 ricultural Exhibition at Montreal, Sept. 1865; Journal of Education, vol. 

 v., Nos. 7-12, 1861, vol. vii., Nos. 10-12; Ann. Rep. of the Nat. Hist. So- 

 ciety, 1863, '64 and '65, Montreal, from Major L. A. Huguet-Latour. 



October 16, 1865. 

 The President, Dr. Exgelmann, in the chair. 

 Eight members present. 



