====================================+=========+========= | HEIGHT. | CIRCUM. NAME OF TREE. | | | Feet. | Feet. ------------------------------------+---------+--------- Arbor Vitæ Queen | 258 | 31 Pride of the Forest | 260 | 50 Andrew Johnson | 273 | 32 Bay State | 280 | 48 Edward Everett | 265 | 46 Henry W. Beecher | 291 | 45 William C. Bryant | 305 | 49 Abraham Lincoln | 281 | 44 Mother of the Forest[15] | 305 | 63 Daniel Webster | 270 | 49 General Jackson | 320 | 42 General Scott | 327 | 45 General Washington | 284 | 52 Beauty of the Forest | 258 | — Two Sentinels | 315 | — Old Kentucky | 277 | 45 Mother and Son | 269 | 64 T. Starr King | 366 | 50 Trinity | 308 | 48 Salem Witch | 310 | — Henry Clay | 241 | 44 Empire State | 275 | 50 Vermont | 259 | 44 Granite State | 286 | 50 John Torrey, (Nobis) | — | 50 | | (All the above-named trees are the _Sequoia Gigantea_.) | | A Sugar Pine, (_P. Lambertiana_) | 165 | — A Yellow Pine, (_P. Engelmann_) | 232 | 27 Another of same species | 220 | 19 ====================================+=========+========= [15] Bark off Mother of the Forest to the height of 121 feet. The stump of the “Original Big Tree” measured in six diameters, gives for mean, 23 ft. 1⅓ in., diameter inside of the bark,—which was two feet thick. REGULAR MEETING, AUGUST 21ST, 1865. Mr. Fisk in the chair. Nine members present. Donations to the Cabinet: Specimen of Chromic Iron, from Tuolumne County, by Mr. Hanks. Mr. Bolander submitted a paper on the Grasses of Arizona, with the following remarks: