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ly as hitherto it was accordingly decided to meet fortnightly in 

 future. Adjourned to September 26th. 



Tusday evening, September 26th. Regular meeting, Mr. W. 

 E. Moore in the chair. There being no business to transact, Mr. 

 Batchelder proceeded to give an account of nevv^ stations of inter- 

 esting plants in New Hampshire. Before presenting the list he 

 urged the members to carry on the work of investigating the local 

 flora in so systematic and accurate a manner that in the course of 

 time there might be issued by the Institute a full catalogue, sim- 

 ilar to those compiled by the botanists of Dartmouth College in 

 New Hampshire and Amherst College in Massachusetts for their 

 respective districts. Preliminary lists should be prepared, to 

 which supplements should be made annually, and original 

 observations recorded — all this with the view of assisting to 

 accomplish some day for New Hampshire what has not yet been 

 done, k just and authoritative presentation of her claim to the 

 most varied flora of any state in the union. He alluded to the 

 very inadequate representation of this district in particular in the 

 published manuals and attributed it solely to the lack of botanists 

 hitherto, a lack which it was preeminently the mission of Section 

 C of the Institute to offset. The list of plants was then read. 



Among the rarer ones were the following : Potentilla triden- 

 tata, Sorbus sambticifolia, RamtnculiLS multifidus, Polygala ver- 

 ticillata, Lechea teiiuifolia, Viola rotimdifolia, Hudsoiiia ericoid- 

 es, Lonicera ciliata and cenilea, Triosteiim perfoliatmn, Cassia 

 Marilandica, Utricularia I'esiipinata, (and another species not 

 yet determined from the specimens thus far collected) Paniaim 

 sphoerocarpon, Aristida gracilis, Mithlenbergia tenniflora and 

 Eragrostis capillaris. 



Adjourned to October loth. 



Tuesday evening, October loth. Regular meeting, Mr. Moore 

 in the chair. After business the meeting was devoted to the 

 examination of specimens. Adjourned to October 24th. 



Tuesday evening, October 24th. Regular meeting, Miss Caro- 

 line E. Wing in the chair. After business Mr. Batchelder by 



