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Thursday, March 24, 1859. 



Evening Meeting at 7 1-2 o'clock, Vice President John. 

 L. Russell in the Chair. Records of preceding meeting 

 read. 



Donations were announced as follows : — 



To the Library — From the Academy of Science at Saint 

 Louis ; W. H. Prince of Northampton ; P. V. Hajden of 

 Washington, D.O.; Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences ; F. W. Putnam ; George P. H. Markoe ; John C. 

 Holmes of Lansing, Mich.; Mrs. Joshua Ward ; J. Wingate 

 Thornton of Boston ; M. A. Stickney ; James M. Caller ; 

 James S. Bryant of Hartford, Conn.; C. Benjamin Richard- 

 son of New York, N.Y.; Henry A. Chase; John L. Sibley 

 of Cambridge ; Ohio Mechanics' Institute, at Cincinnati. 



To the Cabinets — P. W. Putnam ; Henry F. Shepard ; 

 Thomas Trask ; Jose B. Oliver ; B. P. Mudge of Lynn ; 

 Charles E. Brown ; Joseph True ; Forrest Shepard of New 

 Haven, Conn; W. G. Webb; C. P. Wilhams ; Amos Hen- 

 field ; John S. Ives ; Wm. H. Foster ; R. P. Yv^aters ; 

 Smithsonian Institution ; Zoological Museum at Cambridge, 

 (in exchange.) 



Letters were read from Hugh M. Neisler of Butler, Tay 

 lor Co., Georgia ; N. I. Bowditch, of Boston ; Saint Louis 

 Academy of Science, and Charles P. Williams. 



The Chair stated that he had recently received for the 

 herbarium, from James M. Caller, specimens of the fruit of 

 the Quercus cegilops and Terminalia chebula. The acorns 

 and cups of the former are imported from the south of 

 Europe under the name of Yelonia. The nuts of the latter, 

 from East Indies, under that of Myrobalanus. Both are 

 used for tanning in England, but not in this country, at least 

 to any extent. In this connection he spoke of the great ad- 



