14 PEOCEEDIXGS OF THE [Feb. 1860. 



JANUARY 16th, 1860. 

 Vice-President TV. W. Smith in the cliair. 



Contributions to the Library. 



Description of a Deformed, fragmentary Human Skull from 

 an ancient quarry cave at Jerusalem, bj J. Aitken Meigs, M. D. 

 From tJie Author. 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. 

 YII., pp. 129-160. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadel- 

 phia, 1859, Vol. YII., pp. 287—326, with printed notice. 



FEBRUARY I^t, 1860. 

 Yice-President AV. W. Smith in the chair. 

 Contributions to the Library. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadel- 

 phia, 1859, Yol. YII., pp. 327 to Finii 



A copy of the Mount Holly Mirror (Gazette) containing an- 

 nouncement of the formation of Burlington County Lyceum. 

 New Jersey. 



Catalogue of Recent Marine Shells from the Coast of South 

 Carolina, by J. D. Kurtz. Portland, 1860. 



Yice-President Smith read the following paper : 



Autumii Coloring, FaU of tie Leaf, and Wiater Habit of Trees and 

 Shrubs in tbe lower conntry of Sontb Carolina. 



BY WM. WRAGG SMITH. 



"And Autumn laying here and there 



A fiery finger on the leaves ; '• 



Te.vxtsox, Ls :?.Ie>ioki^m. 



The Winter of 1859 set in somewhat earlier than usual. There had been 

 two severe black frosts, the first occurring as early as the 30th October, pre- 



