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a hope that our Provincial Government would view the labours of this Society in 
the same favorable light in which they were viewed by scientific men, and give to 
the Society that countenance and aid which the Governments of other countries 
did not fail to bestow upon similar institutions. 
The following names were added to the list of subscribers: — Mrs. Macauley, 
King street; Rev. H. Mulkins, Portsmouth; Rev, John H. McKerras, M.A., Bow- 
manville ; Alexander Bell, Perth ; David Smart, President of the Horticultural 
Society, Port Hope. 
The following were proposed and duly elected Corresponding Members: — 
Mrs. Traill, Westove, near Peterboro' ; T. Sterry Hunt, F.R.S., Montreal ; W. Mit- 
ton, A.L.S., Hurstpierpoint ; Prof, Caspary, Konisberg ; T. Caruel, Florence; Rene 
Lenormand, Vire; Aug. Todaro, Palermo; Dr. Fitch, Salem; W. Wilson, Warring- 
ton ; Prof Wood, Brooklyn ; W. S. M. D'Urban, 14 Suthernhay, Exeter, Devonshire. 
Extensive donations to the Botanic Garden were announced from Prof. Asa 
Gray, Harvard University ; Mrs. Ferguson, Bellevue Terrace ; Rev. Dr. Machar, 
Andrew Drummond, Esq., G. B. Kirkpatrick, Esq., Hugh Eraser, Esq., Miss Mason, 
George Baxter, Esq., Mr. Yeomans, M Flanagan, Esq., Prof Litchfield, Judge 
Logic, Hamilton ; Prof. Williamson, Prof. Weir, Mr. A. T. Drummond, and others. 
Donations of dried specimens of Canadian Plants were announced from Mi- 
Billings, Prescott, Mr. Macoun, Belleville, Dr. McGillivray, Chelsea, C. E., Mr. T. F. 
Chamberlain, Farmersville. 
Prof Lawson read a letter from Sir William Logan, F. R. S., Director of the 
Geological Survey of Canada, announcing the presentation to the Society of the 
large collections of plants made by the officers of the Geological Survey on the fol- 
lowing explorations, viz : — 
From the Rouge country of Argenteuil and neighborhood, by W, S. M. D'Ur- 
ban. 
From Gaspe, Lake Superior and Lake Huron, by Robert Bell. 
From Eastern Townships, Labrador and Newfoundland, by James Richardson. 
Mr. R. V. Rogers, the Librarian, presented the following list of contributions 
made to the Society's Library since last meeting: — 
From Edward Tuckerman, Professor of Botany in Amherst College, the follow- 
ing works by the donor: — Lichenes Americfe Septentrioualis Exsiccati Fascic, III 
& IV, V & VI, 2 vols ; Lichenes from the Botany of Wilkes' Exploring Expedition ; 
Observations on North American and other Lichenes; Synopsis of the Lichenes of 
New England, other Northern States and British North America; Euumeratio Me- 
thodica Caricum quarundam ; New England's Rarities, discovered by John Josselyn, 
Gent., with introduction and notes by E. Tuckerman, M. A. 
From Asa Fitch, M. D. — His First and Second Reports on the noxious, bene- 
ficial and other insects of the State of New York. 
