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The EIGHTH ANNUAL WINTER MEETING OF THE VERMONT BOTAN- 
ICAL CLUB was held at the University of Vermont on January 16 and 
17. The attendance was the largest in the history of the Club and 
the program was crowded with good papers. President Brainerd 
discussed the violets of the state as at present understood; W. H. 
Blanchard reported from the vicinity of Westminster a number of 
interesting plants new to Vermont, and some new to science; Mrs. 
E. B. Davenport gave her recollections of *the shoemaker botanist," 
C. C. Frost; Professor E. A. Burt discussed the Zhe/ephorae of Ver- 
mont; Mrs. N. F. Flynn reported the discovery of 41 additional 
species in Burlington and vicinity during 1902, making the total 
number of seed plants and ferns recorded for the local flora of this 
region 1066; Dr. G. T., Moore discussed the pollution of water sup- 
plies by algae. "There were r5 other shorter papers presented. 
The annual address was by Mr. Clifton D. Howe of the University 
of Chicago, upon Some Results of Deforestation in Vermont. Mr. 
Howe, in his capacity as field agent for the National Bureau of 
Forestry, has made an extended survey of the forests of the state 
during the past year. It is hoped that Vermont will soon fall into 
line with the other New England states in formulating a forestry . 
policy which will tend to alter the present methods of destructive 
lumbering. 
Seventeen new members were elected and the former officers reap- 
pointed, namely: President, Ezra Brainerd; Vice-President, C. G. 
Pringle; Secretary, L. R. Jones. It was the sentiment that the 
summer meeting, which occurs about July first, be held on Stratton 
mountain. As this is near the Massachusetts and New Hampshire 
lines it is hoped that botanists from the neighboring states may join 
the party. Any desiring to learn more definitely the dates and plans 
should address the secretary, at the v of Vermont, Burling- 
ton.— L. R. Jones, Secy. 
Tue following members of the Connecticut BOTANICAL SOCIETY 
have been appointed as a committee to take charge of its work upon 
the lower cryptogams: Bryophytes, Professor A. W. Evans, New 
Haven; Algae, Mr. Isaac Holden, Bridgeport; Fungi, Dr. G. P. 
Clinton, New Haven. 
Vol. 5, no. 51, including pages 77 to 92 and plate 45, was issued 3 March, 
1902. 
