104 BOTANY. 
of the Institute will consist of Memoirs, which will contain ps "i 
more exhaustive in their character than those published in 
Journal, which is to contain abstracts of the records of the 
ings, the shorter papers and such translations and miscell 
matter as the committee think worth printing. 
The character of the new society promises .to be such 
only pure anthropological science will be allowed entrance 
meetings, and the list of present officers indicates that its o 
will be fulfilled. One of the duties of the president of the 
is to give a review of the progress of Anthropological Se 
during the year, and with Mr. Squier in the chair we look fo 
to an important contribution as the first annual address. 
The present number contains the proceedings cons 
the organization of the Institute, with its Constitution, yy 
ete., and several papers.* 
Taken all together we do not know when we have sab 
isfaction derived from the knowledge attained, than W 
perienced while reading the first number of this Journal. 
shall make extended quotations in future numbers of p 
 RALIST. 
BOTANY. 
Ox UTILITY IN THE SUPERABUNDANCE OF SEEDS AND che 
In the vicinity of Pike’s Peak last summer I noted that 
wis, in many instances, had its usually two “ leaves” 
into one. As winter approaches the terete branchilet, as I a 
‘t needles,” divides and exposes the two inner faces. 47 
one year branchlet is terete; when two or more years- 
“leaves” are in twos or threes. The trees in this mor 
condition grow as well, and as far as can be seen, are in as : 
able circumstances to engage in the struggle for- life as í 
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*The Progress of Anthropology in Europe and America; pode ci satin v A 
of Von on some points of South American Ethnology» 
au. Antiquities from the Guano or Huana Islands of P with 
by E. G. Squier. Sculptured Rocks, Belmont Co., Ohio, with illustrations, 
Canoe in Savannah River Swamp, with cut, by C. C. Jones, jr- ier. 
ning ph ton the Incas, by M. Broca, Dr. Nott, Dr. Piai and Mr. ŝqu ‘i 
iscellaneous Ri 
