38 JOURNAL OF THE 



Grant Allen's Colin Clouts Calendar. 



Grant Allen's Pedigrees of Flowers. 



Underwood's Ferns. 



DeCandolle's Origins of Cultivated Plants. 



Mehan's Wayside Flowers. 



Goodale's Physiological Botany. 



Sach's Lectures on Plant Physiology. 



Darwin's Botanical Works. 



LeMaout & DeCaisne's General Botany, English Edition. 



The Botanical Gazette, a monthly magazine published at 

 Crawfordsville, Indiana, will be found very interesting reading 

 after the student has mastered the rudiments of the science. 



RECOEDS OF MEETINGS. 



REPORT OF RECORDING SECRETARY 



FORTY-FIRST MEETING. 



Stated Meeting. Person Hall, January 8, 1889. 



Vice-President Graves presided. The following papers were read : 



1. Report on Progress in Geology. Prof. Holmes gave an account of the 

 efforts made at a unification of Symbols and Nomenclature. 



2. Report on Progress in Physics and Engineering. In tin's Report Prof. 

 Gore described the recent applications of Electricity to Street Railways. 



3. An Historical Sketch of Mathematical Training in the University of 

 North Carolina. This paper, by Prof. Love, besides containing a list of the 

 instructors in mathematics and the text-books used during the century of the 

 University's history just closing, outlined so far as possible the requirements 

 for entrance and for graduation, 



4. History of Mathematics in the Middle Ages. Prof. Graves continued, 

 in this, his Early Mathematical History. 



5. Early Legislation against Food Adulteration. Prof Venable gave an 

 account of some of the adulterations of food [)racticed in early times, the 

 methods of testing for the same, and extracts from the old laws prohibiting 

 and punishing such adulterations. 



The Secretary exhibited the watch of Rev. Dr. Mitchell, which was worn 

 by him when he met his death, and whose stopping was supposed to point to 

 the exact hour of his Aite. This watch has been presented to the Society by 

 Rev. Mr. Summerell, the grandson of Dr. Mitchell. 



