Sixteenth Annual meeting. 



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Table showing the sucrose and glucose in the successive joints of the Early Amber cane. The joints 



arc nuinbcivl from the bottom. 



It will be a subject of interesting inquiry, whether this variation in the distribution 

 of the constituents of the sap of plants is universal ; also, whether horizontal sections of 

 the stem exhibit the same variation. The vegetable physiologist, as well as the chemist, 

 mav here find an interesting field. 



In the evening, a popular lecture upon "The Ocean; its Fauna and Flora," was de- 

 livered by Dr. R. J. Brown, of Leavenworth. 



