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marks is found in the edible kind, while either one, two or 

 all three are found in the poisonous kind. 



April 2, 1906. 



President Adolf Alt in the chair; attendance twentj-three* 



Mr. Charles P. Pettus, Dr. Theodore Ilg, Dr. Noah M. 



Glatfelter, Dr. W. B. Dorsett, Mr. Henry Boeckler, and 



Mr. Wm. J. Armbruster were elected active members of the 



Academy. 



Mr. Andrew C. Life delivered a lecture on " Alternation of 

 Generation and its Application to Evolution of Plants," il- 

 lustrated by plants and lantern slides. 



April 16, 1906. 



President Adolf Alt in the chair ; attendance thirty. 



Mr. Julian Bagby donated to the Academy a prehistoric 

 Indian club, found fifteen miles south of New Haven, Mo. 

 He stated that all the clubs found in his neighborhood were 

 made of oolitic sandstone and were found in a kind of cis- 

 tern covered over with a clay impervious to water. 



Mr. Julius Hurter presented the following rare and cu- 

 rious reptiles and amphibia with explanations : — 



A giant salamander of Japan {Megalohatrachxis maximiLSy 

 Schlegel), the largest species found. 



A blind salamander of very small size ( Typhlomolge rath- 

 buiii) found in 1896, 188 feet deep in an artesian well at 

 San Marcos, Texas. 



A Surinam toad {Pipa americana, Saurentius) of which 

 species the female carries its young in small cavities on the 

 back, where they develop from the eggs. This species is 

 also called the Honey Comb Toad. 



A Midwife toad {Alytes ostetricaiis, Saur.) 



A tortoise shell turtle ( Ohelone imbricata^ Linn.) as found 

 in the warmer parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian 

 Oceans. 



A flying lizard {Draco solans, Linn.). He described its 



