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of the introduction of the tea-plant bids fair to be sue- 7 
eessful in the United States. 
An engraving of Linneus, at the age of bveray- fe 
in his Lapland costume, was presented in the name o 
Mr. William Sharswood, of Philadelphia. It was ex- 
ecuted in Berlin, from a photograph taken from an oil 
painting in the Library of the Zodlogical Society at Am- 
sterdam. It represents the young naturalist holding in — 
his hand the plant Linnea borealis, and with his girdle 
ornamented with various botanical and entomological 
implements. 
September 7, 1859. 
‘Dr. C. T. Jackson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr. T. J. Whittemore read some notes taken at Mo- 
hawk, Herkimer Co., N. Y., in August, 1859. 
Mohawk is situated on the delta of what was probably a con- 
siderable stream, at an early period, flowing into the Mohawk 
valley, and may have been a lake or estuary ; Fulmer’s creek, on 
which it is situated, is now a small mountain stream. Dr. Lewis, 
1. 6 of the Proceedings, gives 87 species of 17 genera of 
shells found in this region, embracing Little Lakes, and Schuy- 
ler’s Lake; 18 species have since been added. 
“Little Lakes,” in Warren township, are 800 feet above the 
river, the area of which formerly extended over much which is 
now swamp, underlaid with soil of the same character as the 
bottom of the lakes. The upper of the two lakes is about three 
quarters of a mile long, and its whole bottom is of marl, and filled 
_ with living and dead shells, many of which are fossil. This marl 
. is 14 feet deep, by examination ; the lake is shallow, and fur- 
nishes fine pickerel and other fish, and numerous shells,—the 
- lower lake contains more of a black muck bottom; the shells, 
_ fishes, and reptiles are the same in both lakes, but the shells grow __ 
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