1899] Botanical Societies 19 
THE annual meeting of the Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine, 
held at Waterville, August 30 to September 2, 1898, was attended by 
about fifty persons interested in Maine botanical matters. Aside from 
the valuable committee reports, ten leading papers and addresses were 
given — by Prof. A. L. Lane, Mr. Geo. E. Davenport, Miss Louise H. 
Coburn, Prof. Leslie A. Lee, Mr. Merritt L. Fernald, Mrs. G. D. B. 
Pepper, Prof. W. M. Munson, Mr. Haven Metcalf, Mr. Hollis Webster, 
and Mrs. Harriet C. Davis. An entire afternoon was devoted to in- 
formal discussion of the characteristic vegetation of Maine. Fifteen 
persons, répresenting different sections of the state, had been pre- 
viously asked to prepare concise statements of the prevailing vegeta- 
tion, with notes on the controlling physical characteristics, of their 
respective regions. These notes, with the discussion elicited, were of 
more than passing interest, furnishing very important data on the dis- 
tribution of well-known species. Two days were spent in pleasant field 
excursions, which resulted in the discovery of some species quite new 
to the state, and in the extension of the known ranges of many others. 
The following officers and committees for the present year were 
elected: President, Prof. A. L. Lane; Vice-Presidents, Prof. Leslie A. 
Lee, Miss Kate Furbish, Miss Mary A. Clark, Mr. Edward L. Rand, 
Miss Nellie F. Mansfield, Miss L. S. Eaton; Secretary, M. L. Fernald, 
Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass.; Assistant Secretary, Mrs. F. T. 
Stevens, Holyoke Place, Cambridge, Mass. ; Treasurer, C. H. Knowlton, 
4 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, Mass. 
Committee on Plant Distribution, M. I. Fernald, Miss Kate Furbish, 
J. €. Parlin, C. H. Knowlton. 
Committee on Plant Lore, Mrs. H. K. Morrell, Gardiner; Miss 
Mary F. Farnham, Rev. B. P. Snow, H. K. Morrell, Mrs. M. P. Salsman. 
Committee on Bryophytes, J. F. Collins, 126 East Avenue, Provi- 
dence, R. I.; Miss Mary A. Clark, E. L. Rand, Mrs. F. T. Stevens, 
E. B. Chamberlain. 
Committee on Algae, F. S. Collins, Dexter Street, Malden, Mass. ; 
Prof. F. L. Harvey, Haven Metcalf. 
Committee on Fungi and Lichens, Miss Kate Furbish, Brunswick ; 
Miss Clara E. Cummings, Mrs. Harriet C. Davis. 
REGULAR weekly exhibitions of fleshy fungi were made during the 
season of 1898, from May until the middle of November, by the Bos- 
ton Mycological Club, on Saturdays, at Horticultural Hall, Boston. 
