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considerable amount of interest and instruction to the 

 parties present, who, gathering round them, the lecturer, 

 and the donor, could learn the names and properties of the 

 specimens, in a pleasant and familiar manner, a distinctive 

 and yery commendable feature of this energetic little 

 society. The little floral beauties were so numerous, that 

 most of the ladies were supplied with a tiny bouquet, to 

 take home and preserve alive ; the silent monitors, long as 

 they may live, reproducing and repeating the several propo- 

 sitions of the lecture. 



