^ [March 19, 



Education ; Engineer Department, Washington ; Ministerio 

 de Fomento, Mexico ; and Prof. S. S. Ilaldeman. 



Donation for the Cabinet. — Mr. Hampton L. Carson pre- 

 sented, on the part of his sisters and himself, in fulfillment 

 of his father's wishes, to the cabinet of the Society, a portrait 

 in oils of M. Frangois Andre Michaux, the botanist, who died 

 at Paris, October 23d, 1855, setat 85. 



Mr. Fraley returned the thanks of the Society for so inter- 

 esting and valuable a relic of our distinguished fellow-mem- 

 ber, who exhibited in his lifetime so great an attachment for 

 the Society, and in his will such confidence in the honor of 

 its traditions as to make it the trustee of a fund which he 

 bequeathed for Silviculture in America. 



Mr. E. K. Price also described the amicable relations 

 which existed between M. Michaux and the Society, claim- 

 ing the privilege of doing so on the ground that the Society 

 had conferred on him the duty of carrying out the designs 

 of M. Michaux according to the plan adopted by the Com- 

 mittee and approved by the Society, and sketched the princi- 

 pal features of that plan — the planting of the Michaux 

 grove — and the organization of Prof. Rothrock's annual 

 course of public lectures in the Park. 



It was then on motion 



Besolved, That the thanks of the Society be presented to Mr. Hampton 

 L. Carsou and his sisters for their gift of the portrait of M. F. A. Michaux 

 wliose liberal bequest to the Society is now so beneficially available for the 

 promotion of Silviculture and Botany. 



Eesolved, That the Society appreciates the gift more highly because it 

 has been made in compliance with the wish of the late Dr. Joseph Carson, 

 one of its devoted and useful members, whose memory is endeared to his 

 associates by many recollections of his woi'th and virtues. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to Mr. Carson. 



The death of Dr. William Theodore Roepper, at his resi- 

 dence in Bethlehem, Pa., on "Wednesday, March 10th, at the 

 age of 70, was aimounced by Mr. Lesley. 



On motion. Dr. F. A. Genth was appointed to prepare an 

 obituary notice of the deceased. 



The death of General Hector Tyndale, at his residence in 



