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To the Cabinet — from John C. Chadwick ; William L. 

 Welch ; Samuel A. Greene ; Charles W. Felt ; E. D. Ropes ; 

 0. H. Saunders. 



Adjourned. 



Monday, April 7, 1862. 



Meeting this evening at 8 o'clock ; in the absence of the 

 President, George D. Phippen was called to preside. 



Records of preceding meeting read. 



Letters were announced from the Trustees of the New 

 York State Library ; American Geographical and Statistical 

 Society ; Horace Biuney of Philadelphia ; Historical Society 

 of Pennsylvania ; Maine Historical Society ; Connecticut 

 Historical Society ; F. S. Pease of Albany ; Solomon Lin- 

 coln of Hingham ; Jonathan Pearson of Schenectady N. Y.; 

 C. M. Tracy of Lynn ; A. E. Verrill of Norway, Me. 



C. M. Teacy of Lynn gave an interesting and instructive 

 lecture on Phyllotaxis — the arrangement of the leaves on 

 the stem, the uses of the leaf in the vegetable economy — 

 the variety of the forms in the different plants, mode Of de- 

 velopment, &c. 



Remarks upon the lecture were offered by the chair. Rev, 

 C. C. Beaman, and others. 



On motion of Mr. Beaman, the thanks of the Institute 

 were tendered to Mr. Tracy for the lecture, which he has 

 presented to our consideration this evening. 



Donations were announced as follows ; 



To the Library — from James Cook of San Francisco ; 

 Cincinnati Mercantile Library Association ; Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Science ; New York Lyceum of Natu- 

 ral History ; Jonathan Pearson of Schenectady, N.Y. 



To the Cabinets — from N. IngersoU ; George Cassey of 



