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Report upon the Meeting of the Botanical Club of the A. A. A. S., 



Cleveland, OhiOj August 15th to 21st, 1888, 



[Owing to the absence of a number of its more prominent 

 members, the meeting this year was, in some respects, inferior 

 to some of its predecessors, but nevertheless offered much to 

 repay those who attended. 



As usual the meetings occupied the hour previous to tlie 

 assemblinpf of the creneral sections of the Association and were 



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held in one of the rooms of the High School, which was the 

 headquarters for the whole Association and admirably adapted 



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Wednesday, August 15th. 



Meeting called to order at 9 A. M. The President, Mr. David 

 F. Day in the chair. Rev. W. M. Beauchamp was elected 

 Secretary /TO tem. in the absence of Prof V. M. Spalding. The 

 President opened the meeting by an address including a memoir 

 of Dr. Gray and a recommendation that the club be incorporated 

 as a section of the Association, 



Before the reading of the papers in the day's programme two 

 motions were made and carried : one to the effect that the Secre- 

 tary should be provided with a book for permanent records of 

 the Club; the other, that a committee be appointed to consider 

 the proposition in regard to uniting the Club with the biological 

 section of the Association. As members of this committee the 

 Chairman appointed Messrs- W. H. Hale, Thos. Meehan and J. 

 F. Cowell. 



It was also resolved that a committee should be appointed to 

 provide for the publication of the proceedings of the Club. The 

 committee appointed consisted of Messrs. W. H. Seaman, W. H. 

 Hale and Thos. Meehan. 



Mr. Thos. Meehan read papers on ** Dioecious Labiate/ 

 and *'The Elastic Filaments of the Stamens of Compositas;" and 

 Mr, J. F. Cowell followed with '* Observations on Azalea midiflora 

 and Corallorhiza. 



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Thursday. August i6th. 



After the meeting had been called to order, the question of 

 making the Club a special section of the Association, or else a 



