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Monday, May 1. Regular meeting. 

 Vice President Goodell in the chair. 

 Letters were read from : 



Chas. Stodder, Boston ; Samuel R. Carter, Paris Hill, Me. ; Wm. A. 

 Haines, New York; Prof. T. S. Parvin, Iowa City; Asst. Surg. B. G. 

 Wilder, 55th Mass. Vols.; Chas. Wright, Wethersfield, Ct. ; Prof. 

 Edw. Hitchcock, Amherst College ; Dr. John Gundlach, Habana, Cuba ; 

 Tryon Reakirt, Philadelphia; Thomas Meehan, Editor of the Garden- 

 er's Monthly; S. I. Smith, Norway, Me.; John Bolton, Portsmouth, 

 Ohio; S. D. Poole, Lynn; J. D. Parker, Steuben, Me.; Prof. Dana, 

 Yale College; Isaac C. Martindale, Bjberry, Pa.; Prof. D. S. Sheldon, 

 Griswold College; Wm. S. Sullivant, Columbus, Ohio; Prof. H. A. 

 Thompson, Otterbein University; G. F. Matthew, St. John, N. B. ; Prof. 

 A. E. Verrill, Yale College; S. B. Mead, Augusta, 111.; Dr. J. Aitken 

 Meigs, Philadelphia; W. J. Howard, Central City, Colorado; Dr. S. A. 

 De Morales, Habana, Cuba, relating to the Publications : Wm. Wood & 

 Co., New York; Wm. W. Stewart, Custodian, Buffalo Soc. Nat. Scien- 

 ces, on business : A. M. Edwards, New York, announcing the forma- 

 tion of the American Microscopical Society in New York. 



Donations to the Library and Museum were announced. 



A large number of native plants, collected by Nathaniel 

 Hooper and James PI. Emerton, were placed on the table 

 and were explained by Geo. D. Phippen, who had a few 

 interesting remarks to make on each of the various speci- 

 es. Mr. Phippen thought that the opening of the flowers 

 this year, was about ten days in advance of many previous 

 years. 



Messrs. Hooper and Emerton gave an account of the 

 special locality of several of the rarer species. Mr. Emer- 

 ton read a few notes relating to the time of flowering of a 

 number of species of plants, the present season, and also 

 as to the first appearance of several species of insects this 

 spring. 



F. W. Putnam stated that the Toads commenced 

 spawning on the 16th of April. He then made some re- 

 marks, suggested by those of Mr. Phippen, upon the vari- 

 ous theories regarding the origin of species. 



