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Mr. Robinson moved that the chair should appoint a 

 committee -to prepare resolutions of respect to the memory 

 of the deceased. Messrs. Robinson, Wheatland, and 

 Bolles were appointed on said committee. 



The paper of the evening was read by Rev. E. C. 

 Bolles, "On Salisbury and a Day at Stonehenge." It 

 was extremely interesting and instructive. Diagrams and 

 photographs were exhibited. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, April 15, 1878. 

 Vice President Prof. D. B. Hagar in the chair. 



George D. Phippen, Curator of Botany, occupied the 

 hour with a graphic description of his "Impressions of 

 the Flora of Texas," he having been one, of the party of 

 members of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science who, after the session at Nashville, 

 Tenn., last fall, participated in the Texas excursion. A 

 full account of the party, route and incidents was given 

 in successive numbers of -the "Salem Register" during 

 the past winter. 



Mr. Phippen alluded to remarkable trees and plants 

 met with on the route before reaching Texas, such as 

 large trees of the Crape Myrtle at Norfolk, Va., Magno- 

 lia grandiflora at Nashville, Nelumbeum luteum, the great 

 water lily of the southern rivers, etc. 



He spoke also of the vegetable productions of the 

 south, as corn, cotton, sugar cane, tobacco and sweet 

 potatoes, some of which were seen in the bottom-lands 

 covering fields of great extent. 



The vegetation of Texas, as influenced by the changing 

 geological features of the country traversed, was described, 



