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REGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1873. 



Meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The PRESIDENT 

 in the chair. In the absence of the SECRETARY, Dr. 

 WILLIAM NEILSON was requested to act. Eecords of 

 preceding meeting read. 



The SECRETARY announced the following correspon- 

 dence : 



From Stephen M. Allen, Boston, April 22; Jacob Batchelder, Lynn, April 29; T. 

 T. Bouve", Boston, March 21 ; S. P. Boynlon, Lynn, April 29, May 1 ; George Derby, 

 Boston, April 29; Samuel A. Drake, Boston, April 19; James H. Emerton, Boston, 

 March 14; J. C. Holmes, Detroit, Mich., April 12; E. Eupert, Boston, April 26, 

 William H. Rush, Chelsea, April 23; Henry Saltonstall, Boston, April 14; N. Vick- 

 ary, Lynn, April 30; Charles V. Woerd, Waltham, April 18; William H. Yeomans, 

 Columbia, Conn., May 3; American Antiquarian Society, April 26; American Geo- 

 graphical Society, April 30; Basel, Naturforschende Gesellschaft, August 12, 1872; 

 Boston Public Library, April 23; Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, April 17; 

 Chicago Public Library, April 23; New Jersey Historical Society, April 21; New 

 York Lyceum of Natural History, April 22; University of Wisconsin, Madison, 

 April 30. 



Mr. JOHN ROBINSON gave an account of the floral prog- 

 ress of the year, noticing the period of the opening of 

 the flowers of several of the native plants and comparing 

 the same with that of previous seasons. 



He mentioned the finding, by Mr. C. E. Faxon of Cam- 

 bridge, of a fern (Aspidium munitum), hitherto unknown 

 in the United States, but known in the West India islands 

 and other parts of the tropics ; also that Asplenium eben- 

 oides, only found in Philadelphia some years since, had 

 been noticed in Alabama, growing with Asplenium eben- 

 eum and Camptosorus as at the Philadelphia locality, 

 thereby adding to the weight of the theory that it was 

 a hybrid between the latter two. 



He also said that, without doubt, if thorough search be 

 made at the south, many plants not known in our flora 

 would be found, many difficulties having prevented the 



