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Collins Warren and Charles S. Lynch. Richard Q. Cay, 

 Esq., of Matanzas, was elected a Corresponding Member. 



June 1, 1864. 

 The President in the chair. 



TMrty-two members present. 



Prof. W. B. Rogers presented an original cast in sandstone 

 of bones fi*om the Mesozoic Rocks of Middlebury, Ct. The 

 stone was probably the same as that used in the construction 

 of the Society's Museum ; it was found at ]N"ewport among 

 the stones used in the erection of Fort Adams, and he owed 

 his possession of it to the kindness of Capt. Cullum. 



Prof WjTnan remarked that it was the fore hmb of an ani- 

 mal in which reptihan characters predominated, and in con- 

 nection therewith entered with some detail into the structure 

 of the Archyopteryx as illustrated by Prof. Owen, and com- 

 pared it with the true birds. 



Mr. C. J. Sprague exhibited a twig of an apple tree from 

 Lowell, which had been reported to him as always bear- 

 ing fruit but no flowers — it was an instance of arrested 

 growth, the petals being reduced to small green scales even 

 smaller than the sepals. The flowers were all pistillate, a 

 close examination revealing no stamens whatsoever. The im- 

 mature seeds were distributed in an irregularly racemose 

 manner, instead of being verticillate as in the normal state of 

 the flower. 



Dr. J. C. White stated on behalf of the Committee of 

 Arrangements that the Dedication of the new Museum would 

 take place on the afternoon of June 3d, and that full arrange- 

 ments had been made for that occasion. 



Dr. White read, at the request of the Council, the Li- 

 brary and Museum Regulations, passed at their last meeting. 



The following were elected Resident Members : — Dr. John 

 Ilomans, C. G. Bush, J. O. Greene, Geo. J. Dickinson and John 

 S. Bradbury. 



