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to the members present. Under a power of 1000 diameters, the bacilli 

 presented the appearance of numerous fragments of blue thread, about 

 one fourth of an inch in length, thickly distributed throughout the 

 walls of the air cells of the lung ; the blue color was due to the stain- 

 ing process used to make them more evident to the eye. 



Donations were announced as follows : A. G. Wetherby, 19 species 

 of plants from Roan Mountain, N. C, and four specimens of Helicodis- 

 cus jimbriatus ; Prof. John Collett, of Indianapolis, the 11th Annual 

 Report of the Geological Survey of Indiana ; J. E. Bruce, two speci- 

 mens of BeJostoma grandis ; Smithsonian Institution, several pamph- 

 lets ; Signal Service Bureau, Weather Review ; U. P. James, a 

 pamphlet ; Chas. S. Dolley, a pamphlet ; J. A. Warder, two pamphlets 

 and a specimen of Orgyia leucostigma ; John Schimmell. specimen of 

 steatite ; H. F. Myers, two arrow heads ; and D. L. James, the skull of 

 a cow. 



Tuesday Evening, November 7, 1882. 



Dr. R. M. Byrnes, President, in the chair. Present, 20 members. 



E. M. Cooper read a paper on sponges. 



Joseph F. James read a paper on pitcher plants. 



Mr. H. P. Ufford was elected a member of the Society. 



Donations were announced as follows: From Department of the 

 Interior, one pamphlet ; Boston Zoological Society, one pamphlet; 

 F. W. Putnam, one pamphlet ; Signal service Bureau, Monthly Weather 

 Review ; Jnmes L. Fole\% six volumes Scottish Ciyptogamic Flora; 

 Mrs. Kendrick, lot of fossils and minerals; E. F. Bliss, minerals from 

 Colorado; Jacob Hoffner, Agave americana ; Irvin B. Wright, three 

 volumes Ohio Geology, vol. iii. ; E. M. Cooper, two sponges; S. T. 

 Carley, specimen Guinea corn ; Dr. H. H. Hill, seeds and one Unio; 

 E. Schoenauer, specimen plumbago ; A. M. Robinson, coal fossil. 



Tuesday Evening, December 5, 1882. 



Dr. R. M. Byrnes, President, in the chair. Present, 15 members. 



Miss Janet Knox was elected a member of the Society, and Ormond 

 Stone was elected a corresponding member. 



Jos. F. James read a paper upon archaeological relics, and J. R. Skin- 

 ner delivered an address upon a unit of measure found in a stone relic. 



Donations were announced as follows: From Dr. R. M. Byrnes, 

 specimens of Pasceolus globosus, and apatite from Canada ; O. M. 

 Meyncke, 15 specimens of wood sections, and a like number of varieties 

 of acorns and nuts ; J. B. Porter, five Indian skulls and a number of 

 bones ; from the Smithsonian Institution two pamphlets, and from the 

 Signal Service Bureau, one ; from R. J. Fennessey, copper ore; from 

 Chas. Dury, 43 species of Coleoptera, and two rish from Chesapeake 

 Bay: from Dr. J. B. Welch, skin of Lewis woodpecker, from Yellow- 

 stone; from J. W. Hail, Jr., Lindley's introduction to botany; from 

 Wm. A. Cook, larva? of a moth; and from Davis L. James, a speci- 

 men ofPolyporus, and fragments of the castor oil plant. 



