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at one time to have been confounded with each other, and were j 

 then both known under the designation of Orthotrichum crispiim 

 Hedw. 



Mr Archibald Constable exhibited as a specimen of binding in 

 wood a curious work he had lately acquired, of which he supplied 

 the following account : — " The History of the Five Indian Nations 

 depending on the Province of Neiv York in America. Printed and 

 sold by William Bradford in New York, 1727.— This, the first 

 edition of a well-known book, is a small 12mo of 119 pages. It 

 differs from the after-editions in having a Dedication to Governor 

 Burnet of six pages, with the name of the author, ' Cadwallader 

 Golden,' at the end of it. When the book came into my possession 

 last July the wooden boards were somewhat loose, and eight pages 

 of Leed's American Almanack for 1727, printed by Andrew Brad- 

 ford in Philadelphia, which were bound in at the end of the book, 

 were rather imperfect (the Almanack itself is incomplete after 

 April). I sent the volume to Messrs Birdsall, the Northampton 

 bookbinders, to be put to rights, and to have a case made for it. 

 It interested me to hear from them that the wood of which the 

 boards are made, and the leather that covers them, were both of a 

 kind they had not seen before. I have not been able to find out 

 the natiu-e of the leather ; but from a study of American woods, 

 kindly permitted me by Dr Cleghorn, it would seem that the 

 boards are of American walnut. The volume is not without its 

 interest to American book collectors, as I find from a reference to 

 Mr J. Carter Brown's Bihliotheca Americana, printed at Providence, 

 Rhode Island, in 1870, that at that time only four copies of it were 

 known to exist in the United States. 



Mr P. N. Fraser exhibited a bundle of Orchids in beautiful 

 condition, just received by post from Algiers 



May 10. 



Mr P. N. Fraser presented to the Herbarium a large collection, 

 j)rincipally Graminece and Cyperacece, collected by the Eev. John 

 Buchanan in 1875-76, chiefly during a long waggon journey of 

 some 1200 miles from Natal Free State, Basuto Diamond Fields, 

 and Cape Colony. Many of the grasses had been named by the 

 late General Munro. 



Mr Anderson-Henry sent for exhibition the following new 

 plants raised by him from seeds : — 



Androsace foliosa. — This plant was submitted early last summer 

 to Sir Joseph Hooker, and was figured by liim, Bot. Mag., Tab, 

 6661, and named A. foliosa. It is found on the Western Hima- 



