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open air culture in our climate, and closely resembling 

 them in ever}^ particular. This was the same with Mr. 

 Rogers' second crosses, as he calls them. 



The introduction and dissemination of the European 

 grapes has brought together the two species, and the 

 result is, that every year we hear of a new grape spring- 

 ing up in some old garden. There has always been an 

 uncertainty as to the origin of the common varieties, and 

 I can find nothing in their history that conflicts with the 

 views herein given. 



KEGULAE MEETING, MONDAY, FEBRUAEY 7, 1870. 



The President iu the chair. Eecorcls of preceding meeting read. 



The Secretarj^ announced the following correspondence. 



Academia delle Scieuze, Bologna, ]\Iay 15, 18G9 ; C. M. Barton. Worcester, Jan. 19, 

 21; W. T. Brifr'iam. Boston, Jan. 20, 24; A. C. Hamlin. Bangor, Me., Feb. 1, 2; 

 Ferdinand D. Ilsley, Newark, X. J., Jan. ol; Linnrean Society. London, Sept. 25, 

 18(59; X. H. Morrison, Baltimore. Md., Jan. 19; E. Steiger, Xew York, Jan. 10. 



The Librarian reported the following additions to the Library. 



By Donation. 



Andover Theological Seminary. Catalogue of the Officers and Students for 

 1869-70. Svo jjamph. 



Butlek, Bex.T. F.. M. C. Speech of Hon. H. L. Dawes in U. S. H. R., on Econ- 

 omy of Public Expenditures. Speeches of Hon. B. F. Butler in theU. S. H. R., on 

 Public Expenditures of Grant's Administration. 



C0TTS, Mary P. S. Life and Times of Hon. William Jarvis, of Weathersfleld, 

 Vt., 1 vol. Svo, Xew York, 18(!9. 



Harvard University. Medical Department. Eighty-seventh Medical Course, 

 Svo pamph., Boston, 1870. 



Lee, John C. Commercial Bulletin for January. 1S70. 



Sumner, Charles, XJ. S. Sen. Speecli of Hon. Charles Sumner in U. S. Sen., 

 Jan. 12, 1870, Svo pamph. 



Truair & Smith, of Syracuse. Syracuse and Onondaga Directories for 18G8, 

 1870, 2 vols. Svo. 



Waters, J. Linton, of Chicago. The Weekly Mississippi Valley Review and 

 St. Louis Journal of Commerce, Jan., 1870, 4to pampli. Fifteenth Ann. Rep. of 

 Board of Education, of Chicago, Svo pamph., 1869. Illinois Central Directory for 

 1869, 1 vol. Svo. 



Wood, C. A. & J. F. Directory of Essex County for 1870, 1 vol. Svo, Boston, 1870. 



Woodward, R., of Worcester. Worcester Directory for 1866, 1867, 1SG8, 3 vols. 

 Svo. 



