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The following are examples of the mode of applying this 
scheme to practice. 
Stellaria media, common chickweed, stages 4, X. 
Acer rubrum,'swamp maple, stage 4. Locality Newburgh, 
March 16. 
Corylus Americana, hazelnut, stage 5. Locality Central 
Dutchess Co., March 17. 
Alnus serrulata, swamp alder, stage 5. Locality Central 
Dutchess Co., March 18. 
Simplocarpus fetidus, skunk cabbage, stage 6. Locality 
Central Dutchess Co., March 18. 
Epigea repens, trailing arbutus, stage 1-7 to 2. Locality 
Central Dutchess Co., March 26. 
He also presented the results of a record kept of the tem- 
perature of the Croton water as drawn from a faucet in the 
city during the month of March, 1871. 
In February it had averaged 36° F. 
March 2d, 37° F. 
8th, 37°5° 
14th, 42° 
224, 44° 
27th, 445° 
Mr. E. G. SquieR made some remarks relative to a Copper 
Axe, found near Watertown, in this state, and supposed to be 
made of bronze. It, had not, as yet, been shown to contain 
any Tin and it was not at all likely that it did, as it was 
plainly cast and not hammered into shape, as was the case 
with all of those true bronze implements which had been 
found upon this continent, but as yet only in the West and 
South West. 
