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of the introduction of the tea-plant bids fair to be suc- 

 cessful in the United States. 



An engraving of Linnaeus, at the age of twenty-five, 

 in his Lapland costume, was presented in the name of 

 Mr. William Sharswood, of Philadelphia. It was ex- 

 ecuted in Berlin, from a photograph taken from an oil 

 painting in the Library of the Zoological Society at Am- 

 sterdam. It represents the young naturalist holding in 

 his hand the plant Linncea borealis, and with his girdle 

 ornamented with various botanical and entomological 

 implements. 



September 7, 1859. 



Dr. C. T. Jackson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. T. J. Whittemore read some notes taken at Mo- 

 hawk, Herkimer Co., N. Y., in August, 1859. 



Mohawk is situated on the delta of what was probably a con- 

 siderable stream, at an early period, flowing into the Mohawk 

 valley, and may have been a lake or estuary ; Fulmer's creek, on 

 which it is situated, is now a small mountain stream. Dr. Lewis, 

 in Vol. 6 of the Proceedings, gives 87 species of 17 genera of 

 shells found in this region, embracing Little Lakes, and Schuy- 

 ler's Lake ; 1 8 species have since been added. 



" Little Lakes," in Warren township, are 800 feet above the 

 river, the area of which formerly extended over much which is 

 now swamp, underlaid with soil of the same character as the 

 bottom of the lakes. The upper of the two lakes is about three 

 quarters of a mile long, and its whole bottom is of marl, and filled 

 with living and dead shells, many of which are fossil. This marl 

 is 14 feet deep, by examination ; the lake is shallow, and fur- 

 nishes fine pickerel and other fish, and numerous shells, — the 

 lower lake contains more of a black muck bottom ; the shells, 

 fishes, and reptiles are the same in both lakes, but the shells grow 



