1884.) 449 
&c., composing the Fifth Group of Rogers, in the First Survey 
of Pennsylvania.” 
The amendment of the Rules was referred to the consid- 
eration of the President. 
The Committee on Aztec MSS. reported progress. 
The Committee on the Michaux Legacy reported as follows : 
That under last year’s authority of the Society, the sum 
appropriated was expended in the delivery of fourteen lec- 
tures in the Fairmount Park, during last year, according 
to annexed schedule, to increased and interested audiences. 
The Committee recommend that the like appropriation be 
made for the present year, of two hundred and eighty dollars, 
for fourteen lectures, according to schedule annexed, and fifty 
dollars for advertising. 
Free Lectures in Fairmount Park on Botany and Tree Cui- 
ture, by Prof. J. T. Rothrock, on Saturdays, at 4 P. M., 1884. 
April 19. Relation of American forests to American pros- 
perity. 
26. Plant freaks, 
May _ 38. Insects and plants. 
10. Insects and plants. 
17. How timber matures, how it decays and how to 
use it. 
24. Natural selection as related to increase of plants. 
31. What evolution has done for science and for edu- 
cation, and where its possibilities stop. 
Sept. 6. Plants in literature and in superstition. 
138. Plant life during winter. 
20. Stray plants. 
27. Bread plants. 
Oct. 4. Water plants. 
11. A talk about trees. 
18. The extinct plants of our land. 
Mr. Fraley announced that he would send to the Society an 
original copy of the draft of the agreement proposed to be 
executed between the City and the Society when the latter 
PROC. AMER. PHILOS, 800. XXI. 115, 88. PRINTED MAY 38, 1884. 
