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greens, was well worthy of remark. He calculated that the average 

 depth of snow fallen during the storm was about 10 inches. 



The President brought for exhibition several insect habitations 

 which he had recently received from Australia, the ingenious con- 

 struction of which he carefully explained. Besides these habitations, 

 there were exhibited sundry eggs of insects from the same part of the 

 world. One lot of eggs, probably belonging to a Neuropterous insect, 

 were most I'emarkable ; they were laid on long filaments in so peculiar 

 a way as to be quite a puzzle how and why they were so deposited. 

 The eggs were elongate-ovate, in a row, the end of one egg abutting 

 against the middle of the side of the next, so that they stood at right 

 angles to each other. The filaments of the eggs which crossed the 

 direction of the row were vertical, those of the other eggs were in a 

 slanting direction, having an angle of 5U to 60 degrees. 



February Wi, 1856. — The President exhibited a large series of 

 specimens of the Common Brake [Pter'ts aquilina) from various parts 

 of the world, showing the great variety that occurs in this species, 

 and called the attention of the Meeting to a specimen in the collec- 

 tion just presented to the Club by Mr. Green, which was remarkable 

 for its extreme delicacy and beauty. 



The Secretary stated that, during his recent visit to the Azores, he 

 had observed this beautiful variety of Pteris aquilina growing plenti- 

 fully in an orange garden belonging to Mr. Dabney, the American 

 consul at Horta, in the island of Fayal. 



The President exhibited a beautiful species of Amaryllis from 

 Southern Africa, obtained by Dr. Walwitsch in the interior of the 

 Portuguese possessions, near St. Paul de Loando. It had large 

 scarlet flowers, with a yellow starlike throat. He also exhibited 

 several plants of the Oxalis family, to show the peculiarity of the 

 foliage, differing from purely ternate leaves to those which were 

 pinnate, while in other species the three leaflets soon faded from the 

 leafstalk, which, swollen and flattened, then assumed the appearance 

 of an elongate lanceolate leaf. He also explained the peculiarity 

 which Begonias, and several other plants, possessed of propagation 

 from the leaf itself. The well-formed leaves, when taken from the 

 plant, have the central rib and some of the main ribs of the leaf 



