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had paid more attention to geology than to mineralogy, ami 

 that the subject of fossils had particularly attiacted his no- 

 tice, having resided for some time in the vicinity of Trenton, 

 N.#Y., where the Silurian Fossils abound. He gave a brief 

 account of Bome of the prhicipal species there found . 



Mr. C. M. Tracy of Lynn, being called upon, alluded to 

 the favorable impressions he received while listening to a 

 course of lectures by the first speaker on mineralogy some 

 twenty years since ; and to these he attributed no small part 

 of the interest he now felt in the subject of natural history. 

 Pleasantly alluding to the remarks of the two speakers who 

 had preceded, to the effect that the crystals were the flowers 

 of the rocks, and the fossils the flowers of rocks of a more re- 

 cent formation, he said we have here the living fioweis, and 

 the world was not rendered habitable till the rocks were cov- 

 ered with soil, and clothed with beautiful verdure. Ho then 

 described the flowers which had been gathered, in his pleas- 

 ant and instructive manner. Among these were the beach 

 pea, a relative of the sweet pea but not of the eatable kind : 

 the woodbine, or better called the american creeper, which 

 comes very near being a grape vine : the catbrier, the plague 

 of our thickets and representing to us the true sarsaparilla : 

 the wild sarsaparilla and the dwarf elder, which do not merit 

 the name, having no affinity with the sarsaparilla, but 

 more with the parsnip and celery : the sweet alder or pep- 

 perbush, belonging to the Heath Family but flowering later 

 than most of its fellows : the checkerberry, belonging to the 

 same family and well known for its spiciness, but called by 

 too many names : the seaside golden-rod, one of the show- 

 iest and betraying the effect of the saline air by its fleshy 

 leaves ; the sea-rocket, affected in the same way and ta- 

 king so much salt as to taste of it ; the hemp, well known for 

 its fiber, and closely akin to the Cannabis Indica, or intoxica- 

 ting Indian hemp : the field clover, familiarly called " pussy 

 clover" from its wooly heads : and the dodder, whose truly 



