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Aubrey H. Smith, Phila. Silphiurn perfoliatum L., and Gordonia pubescent 



L'Her., with its fruit, from Bartram's Garden, Phila. 

 Dr. Emil Bessels, Washington, D. C. 13 species arctic plants, collected 

 on Voyage of Polaris in July, 1872, Lat. 81°-82° K, and Long. 61° W. 

 J. Donnell Smith. Baltimore, Md. 26 species from southern United States, 



of which 3 are new to us. 

 John H. Redfield. 67 species from western X. America, of which 56 are 

 new to us. 

 299 species, collected by C. G. Pringle, in Arizona and Iowa, in 1884, 

 of which 114 are new to the collection. 

 16 species N. American grasses, mostly from Florida, of which 6 are 

 new to us. 

 143 species, collected by him on N. England coast, mostly from Maine. 

 Friesia refracta Klatt, Cult., new to us. 



Plants (Fossil). — J. Ford. 5 trays coal plants, Schuylkill Co., Pa. 

 L. H. Lighthipe. A collection of fossil plants and plant impressions, from 

 the Cretaceous clay of Woodbridge, N. J. 



Rocks and Minerals. — W. W. Jefferis. Dog-tooth spar, Mineral Point, 

 Wis. ; magnetic sand, Lake Champlain ; iron pyrites, changing into 

 limonite, Berks Co., Pa. ; corundum, Chester Co., Pa. ; fossiliferous 

 limestone, Cincinnati ; iron pyrites, E. Whiteland, Pa. ; Silurian lime- 

 stone, Ohio ; blende and galena, Cumberland, England ; quartz, from 

 dolomite of Poorhouse Quarry, Chester Co., Pa. ; quartz, from Lewis 

 Co., N. Y. ; gneiss and limestone, from Van Arsdalen's quarry, Pa. ; 

 leu cite, from Vesuvius ; quartz. Hot Springs, Ark • calamine, pseudo- 

 morph after calcite, Mineral Point, Wis.; granular qmrtz, Dixon's, Del. ; 

 corundum, Newlin, Pa. ; pyroxene, Burgess, Can. ; garnet, Lancaster, 

 Mass. ; fiuor spar, Philadelphia ; massive garnet, Birmingham, Pa. ; 

 granite, Triassic shale, no loc. ; Potsdam sandstone, Gouverneur, N. Y. ; 

 lignite, Bonn, Germany ; amygdaloidal melaphyre, Oberstein, Germany ; 

 melaphyre, Hettstadt, Germany ; trachyte, Siebengebirge, Germany ; 

 lithographic slate, Bavaria ; toadstone, Newburyport, Mass. ; buhrstone, 

 Paris, France ; amygdaloid, Round Hill, Mass. ; blue quartz, Chester 

 Co., Pa. ; schist with magnetite (loc. ?) ; wavellite, E. Whiteland, Pa. ; 

 blue quartz, East Creek, N. Y. ; actinolite, Delaware Co., Pa. ; hema- 

 tite, Bernisof; mica slate. Warren, N. H. ; corundum (altered), New 

 Lynn, Pa. ; hornblende, apatite and sphene. Rossie, N. Y. ; limonite, 

 Algeria : muscovite, Pennsburg, Pa. ; museovite, Chandler's Hollow, 

 Del. ; hornblende, Russell, N. Y. ; cadmiferous blende, Wilkenradt ; 

 pyrite, smithsonite and sphalerite, Mineral Point, Wis. ;. quartz, Media, 

 Pa. : polyadelphite, Franklin, 1ST. J. : red-spotted porphyry, Lynn, Mass. ; 

 polyadelphite and rhodonite, Franklin, N. J. ; corundum in Indianite, 

 Delaware Co., Pa. : danburite iloc. ?) ; talc, East Bradford, Pa. ; phlo- 

 gopite, Rossie, N. Y. ; phlogopite, Burgess, Can. ; talc, Rochester, N. 

 H. ; radiated mica and damourite, Chester Co., Pa. ; cerussite, Mineral 

 Point, Wis.; calcite. Bilbao, Spain; rutile and dolomite, Chester Co., 

 Pa. ; scapolite, Bolton, Mass. ; almandine, Dixon's, Del. ; tourmaline, 

 Tin msand Islands. 



D. S. Martin. Carrara marble bored by sponge, Long Island ; marmolite, 

 Hoboken, N. J.: crust from Saratoga "Geyser Spring;" crust from 

 "Champion Spring," Saratoga; Eozoon rock, Thurman, N. Y. 



S. E. Hudson. Lignite, from Egg Harbor, N. J. 



J. Ford. Fossiliferous pebbles, Fairmount Park, Pa. 



I. Lea. A series (51 trays I of Triassic rocks and organic impressions from 

 Pennsylvania ; a series (35 trays) of rock fragments and plant remains 

 from the Permian, Trias and Lias of Alsace-Lorraine and south- 

 western Germany, named in part by Prof. Schimper. 



