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Mr. Powell remarked that they dipped their arrows in blood 

 and flesh. 



Mr. Antisell remarked that the Apaches carried poisoned 

 arrows, obtaining the poison from more southern tribes, who 

 derived it from the rattlesnakes. 



Remarks were also made by Mr. Farquhar and Mr. Gill. 



134th Meeting. January 5, 1878. 



Vice-President Welling in the Chair. 



Thirty-eight members and visitors present. 



Mr. Elliott Coues, after a few preliminary remarks on the 

 evidence of 



"the use of poisoned arrows by north AMERICAN INDIANS," 



and his own experience and that of others with wounds produced 

 by them, read a paper on the subject by Dr. Hoffman, Surgeon 

 U. S. Army. 



Mr. Gale made a communication on 



"THE CLIMATE OP PLANTS," 



maintaining that each plant has a range of climate within which 

 it thrives and flourishes, and outside of which is dwarfed or dis- 

 appears, illustrating by familiar examples. 



Mr. Antisell gave instances of the disappearance of trees in 

 some localities not attributable to climate, some of which Liebig 

 ascribed to changes of soil ; for others no satisfactory reasons 

 bad been assigned. He instanced pines on the coast of Califor- 

 nia, where the denuded soil and greater exposure to winds were 

 unfavorable to the growth of young plants ; and the bamboo on 

 the northern Island of Japan, which, stinted near the shore, be- 

 comes more luxuriant as you go inland, and grows well on the 



