l86 ^ ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. [Oct. 14, 



mmor Sims. , and Arceuthobiiim pusillum Peck. The latter was found 

 at Mendon Ponds by Mr. M. S. Baxter, the only station reported in 

 this county. 



The formal meeting adjourned at an early hour in order to per- 

 mit the audience to examine the collections. 



October 14, 1895. 



The meeting was held in the Lecture hall of the Reynolds 

 Library, the President in the chair. Forty-eight persons present. 



The Council report recommended : ( i ) The payment of a bill. 

 (2) The election as corresponding members of Dr. Anna H. 

 Searing and Dr. Frederick Starr. (3) The election as Fellows of 



Mr. M. W. Cooke, Mr. J. Y. McClintock, 



Dr. George W. Goler, Mr. H. K. Phinney, 



Dr. Charles T. Howard, Mr. J. E. Putnam, 



Miss Ada M. King, Mr. F. W. Warner, 

 Dr. J. H. McCartney, 



The bill was ordered paid and the corresponding members 

 formally elected ; the nominations for fellows were laid upon the 

 table, under the rules. 



Dr. George W. Goler, as special committee on place of meeting, 

 made an informal report to the effect that arrangements had been 

 made with the Reynolds Library for the free use of the room in which 

 the Society was then convened, and that the Council had chosen this 

 as the place of regular meeting until further notice. 



The following letter was read by the President : 



October 14, 1895. 

 Mr. Herman LeRoy Fairchild, 



President of the Rochester Academy of Science. 



Dear Sir — As the result of a number of years' collecting, exchange, and 

 purchase, I have accumulated a collection of pressed specimens of ferns, of both 

 native and exotic species. A portitjn of these specimens are mounted on white 

 cardboard ii>^ x i6>^ inches, the standard herbarium size. 



Of North American ferns there are 108 mounted specimens comprised in 23 

 genera ; of exotic species there are 552 mounted specimens in about 130 genera. 

 Besides the mounted specimens there is a considerable number yet unmounted, 



