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He is a member of many scientific societies, among which 

 may be mentioned the American Philosophical Society and the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has 

 been Vice-President of the Philadelphia Academy of Science 

 for a quarter of a century and has also found time to represent his 

 ward in the Common Council for nearly as long. During this 

 term of service he has secured for the city no less than twenty- 

 three new parks. He has also served on the local school board 

 for nearly twenty-five years. 



To our readers, Mr. Meehan is probably best known through 

 his botanical writings, the titles of which are said to number at 

 least a thousand. Half a century ago he published " The Hand- 

 book of Ornamental Trees," and some time later began his 

 valuable " Flowers and Ferns of the United States," which com- 

 prises several volumes and is still continued as a department of 

 that excellent botanical journal, Mee halts' Monthly. The col- 

 ored plates and the text which accompanies them are patterns 

 of botanical excellence. 



Although belonging so much to the public by reason of his 

 works, Mr. Meehan is very averse to publicity and it was with 

 much difficulty that his friends secured the likeness which we 

 present. He has frequently refused permission to publish his 

 portrait, but his consenting to sit for a portrait in oil to be hung 

 in the rooms of the Philadelphia Academy of Science, of which 

 he has so long been an officer, was the entering wedge, and from 

 the painting the picture here produced was made. Mr. Meehan 

 is still in good health, though he has passed his seventy-fifth year. 



TWO FERN ALLIES IN CENTRAL NEW YORK. 



By J. V. Haberer, M. D. 



N October 5th last, whPe collecting Botrychia in the vicinity 



of Utica, I was surprised to find a colony of Lycopodium 



inundatum on the north side of the Mohawk, in Deerfield, 

 Oneida county, N. Y. The locality is one of sandy hills, mounds 

 and depressions, with a number of springs. The vegetation is 

 very scanty, consisting mostly of ferns, mosses and lichens. The 

 plants inhabited the depressions, and though quite numerous were 

 confined to a small area. I was at once impressed with the 

 favorable conditions for the existence of the species ; the flow 

 from the springs and the autumn rains, inundating, so to speak' 



