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of a large and very valuable collection of plants, chiefly from the neighborhood of 
Prescott. The Society's thanks were specially voted to Mr. Billings for his valu- 
able donation. 
Mr. A. T. Drummond, B. A., exhibited a number of Dyes prepared from native 
Canadian Lichens. Mr. T. Sullivan presented a peculiar pilose Polyporus. 
Blank Schedules for recording the leafing, flowering, and other periodical phe- 
nomena of plants, were distributed to the Members. 
The following papers were read, viz ; — 
1. Remarks on the Silk obtained from Lettuce-fed Silk Worms. By Miss Gil- 
dersleeve. 
2. Further observations on Silk Culture. By Mrs. Lawson. 
3. Extracts from Letters relative to Silk and the native fibre-yielding Insects 
of Canada. By John Dufi". 
4. On Fungi, their relation to Disease. By John Lowe, M. D., M. R. C. S , Eng., 
F. B. S. E., Surgeon to the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital. This paper has since 
been published in the British American Journal of Medical and Physical Science, 
for May, 1861, (vol. ii, p. 193). 
5. On the Secretion of Saccharine Matter in the Floral Organs of Plants, and 
on the Economy of Bees ; with the results of investigations on the Sexual Develop- 
ment of Bees. By the Very Rev. Principal Leitch, President. 
Severdh Meeting. 
FRIDAY EVENING, 14th JUNE, 1861. 
Rev. Professor Mowat, A. M., afterwards Rev. Prof. Williamson, L L. D., Vice- 
President, in the Chair. 
The following were admitted as subscribers : — Miss Fisher, Newmarket ; Rev. 
H. E. Plees, Carrying Place; Rev. Mr. Borthwick, A. M., Ottawa; John G. Giles, 
M. D., Farmersville ; W. Carter Deans, M. D., Trenton; W. Weir, M. D. ; H. D. 
Lord, Ladlowville, Tompkins Co., New York ; Edward C. Fox, of Baliol College, 
Oxford, Trenton, C. W. ; Samuel H. Fee, Kingston. 
Donations of seeds were announced from Mr. Ilaage, Erfurt, and Mr. Bruce, 
Hamilton ; donations of specimens of lichens from Mr. B. Billings, Jr., Brockville ; 
and donations to the Library as follows : — Fragmenta Phy:ographife Austndife, 
Vol. I., from the Author, F. Mueller, Ph. D., Botanist to the Colony of Victoria, 
Hon. M. B. S. C. From Principal Dawson, Montreal, Hon. M. B. S. C, his Memoir 
on the Pre-carboniferous Flora of New Brunswiuk, Maine and Eastern Canada. — 
From F. Stanton, of the 1st Royals, F. B. S. C, several interesting volumes on bo- 
tanical subjects. 
