﻿ACADEMY 
  OF 
  SCIENCES. 
  103 
  

  

  lesser 
  inner 
  only 
  on 
  oue 
  edge) 
  mucronate. 
  Capsule 
  (not 
  "acheniuni?") 
  three- 
  

   seeded 
  ; 
  seeds 
  not 
  " 
  pyramidal," 
  but 
  sub-triangular, 
  i. 
  e., 
  with 
  two 
  plane 
  faces, 
  

   and 
  the 
  back 
  convex. 
  

  

  All 
  climbers 
  have 
  peculiar 
  claims 
  to 
  a 
  beauty 
  of 
  their 
  own, 
  but 
  this, 
  with 
  its 
  

   large 
  terminal 
  clusters 
  of 
  brilliant 
  carmine 
  flowers, 
  is 
  the 
  most 
  striking 
  of 
  them 
  

   all. 
  

  

  Keqular 
  Meeting, 
  June 
  2d, 
  1873. 
  

   Vice-President 
  in 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  Thirty 
  members 
  present. 
  

  

  W. 
  W. 
  Montague 
  and 
  A. 
  W. 
  Chase 
  were 
  elected 
  resident 
  

   members. 
  

  

  Donations 
  and 
  Additions 
  to 
  Library 
  : 
  Smithsonian 
  Reports 
  (3 
  vols.), 
  for 
  

   1863, 
  18C6, 
  1867. 
  Lists 
  of 
  Elevations 
  in 
  that 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  west 
  of 
  the 
  

   Mississippi 
  river, 
  by 
  Henry 
  Gannett, 
  for 
  Department 
  of 
  the 
  Interior. 
  Nature, 
  

   Nos. 
  181-3. 
  California 
  Horticulturist, 
  May, 
  1873. 
  Engineer 
  and 
  Mining 
  

   Journal, 
  Vol. 
  XY., 
  Nos. 
  16-19. 
  Astronomical 
  Register, 
  for 
  May, 
  1873. 
  

   Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  Essex 
  Institute, 
  Vol. 
  IV., 
  Nos. 
  11 
  and 
  12 
  ; 
  and 
  Vol. 
  V., 
  Nos. 
  

   1, 
  2. 
  Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  Buffalo 
  Society 
  of 
  Natural 
  Sciences, 
  Vol. 
  1, 
  No. 
  1. 
  

   Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Pyralidas 
  of 
  California, 
  etc., 
  by 
  A. 
  S. 
  Packard, 
  Jr., 
  from 
  the 
  

   Author. 
  Proceedings 
  Academy 
  Natural 
  Sciences 
  of 
  Philadelphia, 
  pp. 
  201-332. 
  

   Views 
  of 
  Nature, 
  etc., 
  by 
  Ezra 
  C. 
  Seaman, 
  from 
  the 
  Author. 
  American 
  

   Journal 
  of 
  Science 
  and 
  Arts, 
  Vol. 
  V., 
  No. 
  29. 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Nat- 
  

   ural 
  History, 
  Vol. 
  II, 
  No. 
  65, 
  May, 
  1873. 
  De 
  la 
  Composition 
  des 
  Eaux 
  Min- 
  

   erales 
  de 
  Spa, 
  by 
  Messieurs 
  Chandelon, 
  Donny, 
  Kupfiferschlager, 
  and 
  Swarts. 
  

   Dijon, 
  1872, 
  from 
  the 
  Authors. 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Echinodermata 
  of 
  New 
  Zea- 
  

   land, 
  with 
  Diagnoses 
  of 
  the 
  Species, 
  by 
  F. 
  W. 
  Hutton, 
  F. 
  G. 
  S., 
  from 
  the 
  

   Author. 
  Sixth 
  and 
  Seventh 
  Annual 
  Reports 
  on 
  the 
  Colonial 
  Museum, 
  etc., 
  of 
  

   New 
  Zealand 
  ; 
  also, 
  Reports 
  of 
  Geological 
  Explorations 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand 
  during 
  

   1871-2, 
  from 
  the 
  Director, 
  James 
  Hector, 
  M.D., 
  F.R.S, 
  On 
  a 
  Method 
  of 
  De- 
  

   tecting 
  the 
  Phases 
  of 
  Vibration 
  in 
  the 
  Air, 
  surrounding 
  a 
  Sounding 
  Body, 
  etc. 
  

   On 
  a 
  Method 
  of 
  Measuring 
  the 
  Wave-lengths 
  and 
  Velocities 
  of 
  Sounds 
  in 
  Gases, 
  

   etc. 
  On 
  the 
  Experimental 
  Determination 
  of 
  the 
  Relative 
  Intensities 
  of 
  Sound, 
  

   etc. 
  On 
  a 
  New 
  Form 
  of 
  Lantern 
  Galvanometer. 
  On 
  a 
  Method 
  of 
  Tracing 
  the 
  

   Progress 
  and 
  of 
  Determining 
  the 
  Boundary 
  of 
  a 
  Wave 
  of 
  Conducted 
  Heat 
  ; 
  5 
  

   pamphlets, 
  8vo., 
  by 
  Alfred 
  M. 
  Mayer, 
  Ph. 
  D., 
  from 
  the 
  Author. 
  American 
  

   Chemist, 
  Vol. 
  Ill, 
  No. 
  2, 
  May, 
  1873. 
  Ornithology 
  of 
  Samoa, 
  etc., 
  by 
  Dr. 
  O. 
  

   Finsch. 
  Temperature 
  Chart 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  from 
  Smithsonian 
  Institu- 
  

   tion. 
  

  

  