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Dr. Beal offered the following resolution at this point: Re- 
solved, that a vote of thanks of the Botanical Club be extended 
to E. B. Southwick, Botanist of the Central Park, New York, for 
his very interesting exhibit of some sixty or more species of 
fruits and nuts including their branches and leaves. The resolu- 
tion was unanimously accepted. : 
The President, out of courtesy to the valuable work done 
by the United States Department of Agriculture, called upon 
Dr. Vasey to make some remarks upon the work now in 
Progress in the Botanical Division of this Department. The 
Doctor outlined briefly the various undertakings of the year, 
mentioning first, the field work, which during the present 
season, has been confined to Idaho, owing to insufficient 
means for the support of field agents in other States as heretofore 
Maintained. The large number of 53,000 specimens has been col- 
lected the present season and more are being sent in. In addi- 
tion he mentioned the publications of the Division and announced 
the speedy completion of the Grasses of the Pacific Slope, a work 
supplementary to the Grasses of the Southwest; also the ad- 
mirable work of Dr. Coulter upon the Flora of Texas, of which 
the third part was soon to appear. As to the experimental work 
in the cultivation of the forage grasses carried on at Garden City, 
Kansas, with branch stations in Colorado, Utah, North and South 
Dakota, Wyoming, Texas and New Mexico, all of which branch 
Stations, however, have been discontinued for lack of funds; the 
speaker mentioned Bromus inermis as one of the most promising 
Stasses, for pasture uses, of which twenty-five acres were already 
Planted near Garden City. Dr. Vasey mentioned Panicum vir- 
Satum, Andropogon nutans and Agropyrum glaucum as likely to 
Prove of value, either as pasture grasses or for meadow, and spoke 
hopefully of work in progress upon the growth of cereals in this 
arid region, expressing his opinion that cereals would be finally 
§town in this section of the country without irrigation. 
On suggestion of Dr. Britton, who made a preliminary one 
of the Committee on Nomenclature, the matter of the recepuon of 
the Teport was made a special order for the afternoon meeting. 
No one objecting, the chair announced that the report of the 
Committee on Nomenclature would be discussed during the af- 
ternoon session. 
