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leaves of the birch, beech, willow, basswood and gooseberry, the ground 
seeds of d-was-a-sd, or the sunflower, were all utilized as relishes, 
and in extreme cases as substitutes for solid foods. 
Among the various nations of Indians that now roam the plains 
and forests of the West, with the unrestrained freedom of anciert 
nomadic life, the old time habits and customs still prevail, and whole 
tribes eke out a precarious existence upon vegetable diets consisting. 
mainly of esculent roots; but the reservation Indians of the State of 
New York have long been dependent for subsistence upon the products 
of intelligent agriculture, and even the legendary knowledge of ances- 
tral foods has in many instances utterly faded from remembrance. 
Occasionally an educated Indian will cast a gleam of hght upon the 
dark kitchen mysteries of his progenitors, and now and then the 
student of aboriginal history discovers a diamond of knowledge in the 
crooning of some aged Seneca who cherishes a memory of the strange 
habits and stranger tastes of his wild-wood forefathers. 
DECEMBER 22, 1890. 
STATED MEETING. 
The President Pror. H. L. FAtrRcHILp, in the chair. 
Twenty persons present. 
The accessions to the Library were noted. 
The paper for the evening was read by Mr. H. L. PREsTOoN, on 
QUARTZ; THE PROTEAN MINERAL. 
Illustrated by a large collection of various forms of the mineral. 
JANUARY 12, 1891. 
TWELFTH ANNUAL MEETING. 
The President, Pror. H. L. Faircui Lp, in the chair. 
Seventeen persons present. 
9, Proc. Rocu. Acap, oF Sci., VOL. 1, AUGUST, 1891. 
