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thor, Dr. Mueller, Botanist to the Colony of Victoria, Hon. M, 

 B.S.C. 



2. Memoir on the Pre-carboniferous Flora, from the author, 

 Principal Dawson, Montreal, Hon. M. B.S.C. 



3. Several popular works on Botany, from F. Stanton, 1st 

 Royals, F.B.S.C. 



4. Lichens, a large and beautiful collection, from Mr. B, Bil- 

 lings, F.B.S.C, Prescott. 



5. Seeds from Mr. Horage, Erfurt, and Mr. Bruce, Ham- 

 ilton. 



Professor Lawson exhibited under the microscope, several spe- 

 cies of Spirogyra in a beautiful state of conjugation, from the 

 pond in Queen's College grounds. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On the Geographical Distribution of the Coniferae in Canada. 



By the Hon. "William Sheppard, D. C. L., of Fairymead, 

 Drummondville, Lower Canada. 



2. Description of the Curculio, its mode of destroying Fruit, and 



the various means employed to check its progress. By Tho- 

 mas Briggs, Jr. 



3. Remarks on the species of Oak, their history, habits, and uses. 



By Miss Crooks, Hamilton, C. W. 



4. List of the Lichens of the neighbourhood of Prescott, C. W. 



By B. Billings, jun. 

 Field meeting, 17th June, 1861. The members met at the 

 Crystal Palace, Kingston, and proceeded a few miles beyond Col- 

 lins' Bay, visiting the woods and swamps along the Bath Road. 

 Many interesting plants, including ferns, orchids, carices, mosses, 

 hepaticas, lichens, algae, &c., were collected, of which a list will be 

 printed in the Society's Annals. 



G. L. 



NEW MINERAL. 



Prof. How of King-'s College, Windsor, N. S., publishes in 

 Silliman, the description of a new Boracic Acid Mineral from the 

 Gypsum of Nova Scotia, for which he proposes the name " Cry- 

 ptoraorphate." It is found along with the Natro-boro-calcite, j^re- 

 viously observed by him in the Gypsum qarries at Windsor. 



" The mineral to which I would now draw attention was found 

 in the same quarry as the preceding, at a distance of about 100 



