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sects. Dr. J. H. Dubbs read a paper on arrows and arrow 
makers. The paper was accompanied by a letter from A. F. Ber- 
lin, of Allentown, Pa., and illustrated by specimens of darts and 
arrow heads in stone made by Mr. Berlin by the process described 
in the letter. Dr. T. C. Porter stated that the Lancaster county 
herbarium of the society needed arranging, and that the plants 
should be poisoned in order to preserve them from destruction by 
the museum pest. He offered to defray the expense incident 
thereto, if the members would do the actual working part of the 
undertaking. The doctor’s generous offer was accepted, and Pro- 
fessor J. S. Stahr, C. A. Heinitsh, and Mrs Zell, were appointed a 
committee to arrange and poison the specimens in the herbarium. 
Dr. Porter further stated that he intends revising the list of the 
flera of the county, correcting the nomenclature of the same and 
adding the new plants discovered thereto, and that when com- 
pleted he will place the list in the hands of the society for publi- 
cation in bulletin form. In speaking of the flora of the county, 
Dr. Porter stated that for rare specimens the Dillerville swamps 
appeared to be a veritable coast line, as it were. 
New York Acapemy oF Sciences, Dec. 7, 1885.—The Egyp- 
tian origin of our alphabet, Dr Charles E. Moldenke.. 
an. 4.—Fungi inducing decay in timber (illustrated); Mr. P. 
H. Dudley. (Specimens were exhibited of “scaly lentinus,” Zen- 
tinus lepideus Fr.—the species of fungus so destructive to railway 
sleepers and timber of yellow pine (Pinus australis) in this vicinity. 
Boston SOCIETY oF NATURAL HISTORY, Dag 2—Mr. Frank H. 
Cushing described an Indian naturalist, or e Zuñi conceptions 
of animal and plant life; Mr. S. H. Scudder spoke of some recent 
important discoveries among the oldest fossil insects. 
Dec. 16.—W. O. Crosby, Notes on joint-structure. 
Jan. 6, 1885.— Frank H. Cushing, The mythology of the 
Zuñis. í 
APPALACHIAN Mountain Crus, Dec. 11, 1885.— Geodetic 
Observations from Moosilauke and Mansfield, Prof. E. C. Picker- 
ing; The tripyramid slides of 1885, written by Rev. Alford 
A. Butler, and Notes on the region east of Wild river and south 
of the Androscoggin, written by Mr. A. L. Goodrich. 
Oct. 14.—Professor Gaetano Lanza, An ascent of Mount Gar- 
; M. V. B. Knox, Ph.D., Notes on the slide at Jefferson; 
mountain; An excursion over Mounts Nancy, Anderson and 
Lowell. 
