2 Rhodora [JANUARY 
of the herbarium of Arthur Stanley Pease rich in plants of Coós County 
N. H., and Andover, Massachusetts. Above all in size and importance, 
however, stands the gift to the Club of the herbarium of our corre- 
sponding secretary, Mr. Edward L. Rand. "This collection, which has 
not yet been received, contains many thousands of specimens and is 
especially important as having formed the basis of Rand & Redfield's 
Flora of Mt. Desert Island. The total number of specimens actually 
received during the year was 11,765. The herbarium actually con- 
tains 51,109 sheets of mounted specimens distributed as follows. 
From Maine 22,238 
" N.H. 5,735 
“Vt. 2,396 
“ Mass. 17,380 
" R.L 882 
“Conn. 2478 
The reports of the Committees were then made, and the election 
of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: President, Merritt 
L. Fernald, Vice President, William P. Rich, Corresponding Secretary, 
Edward L. Rand, Recording Secretary and Treasurer, Emile F. 
Williams, Phaenogamie Curator, Karl M. Wiegand, Cryptogamic 
Curator, Lincoln W. Riddle, Members of the Council, Joseph A. 
Cushman, Walter Deane, and Benjamin L. Robinson. The following 
candidates, for membership recommended by the Council, were 
elected :— Resident members: Sumner C. Brooks, Cambridge, Myron 
E. Gutterson, Andover, George H. Richards, Boston, George S. Torrey, 
Boston, Prof. William M. Wheeler, Boston. Non-resident members: 
The Rev. Charles B. Ames, Belfast, Maine, Prof. Samuel F. Clarke, 
Williamstown, Massachusetts, Ralph Hoffman, Kansas City, Missouri, 
Bayard Long, Ashbourne, Pennsylvania, andẸJ ay G. Underwood, 
Hartland, Vermont. 
The talk of the evening, “The Shad Bushes of New England," was 
given by Prof. Wiegand, and this difficult subject was presented in 
such a comprehensive and lucid manner that it would appear as if his 
treatment would solve most of the difficulties which have beset every 
student of the genus. The difficulties are two-fold — first the very 
extensive and confused nomenclature, much of it hopeless on account 
of the insufficiency of the earlier descriptions and the impossibility of 
tracing the specimens upon which they were based and — second, the 
