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“The Falling of Pine Leaves,” by B. T. Galloway. 
“Some Methods employed in the Investigation of parasitic 
Fungi and other Organisms,” by B. T. Galloway. 
The committee appointed at the Rochester meeting to consider 
and report on the advisability of forming a national botanical 
society presented a majority report disapproving the formation of 
such an organization at the present time, and Prof. C. R. Barnes 
presented a minority report recommending its immediate estab- 
lishment by the selection by the Club of a committee of ten who 
shall select fifteen others, these twenty-five to be the charter mem- 
bers of the society. The minority report was accepted, and a 
committee of ten selected by ballot. 
The Committee on Nomenclature was authorized to proceed 
with the publication of the check-list, matters concerning it 
not determined by the Club were referred to the committee with 
power, and the committee increased to nine members by the 
appointment of Professors Edward L. Greene and Wm. Trelease. 
Officers for the next meeting were elected as follows: Presi- 
dent, Prof. Douglas H. Campbell; Vice President, Prof. Daniel C. 
Eaton; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. W. T. Swingle. 
N. L. Brirron. 
Titles of Papers read before the Section of Botany, A. A. A. S., 
Madison Meeting, August, 1893. 
Photography as an Instrument for recording the microscopic 
Characters of Micro-organisms in artificial Cultures, by G. F. At- 
kinson, : . 
Symbiosis in the Roots of Ophioglossacez, by G. F. Atkinson. 
Observations on a Rust affecting the Leaves of the Jersey or 
Scrub Pine, by B. T. Galloway. 
Prophylla of Graminex, by W. J. Beal. 
A new injection Needle for the Study of the Lower Plants, by 
J. Christian Bay. 
On the Food of Green Plants, by Charles R. Barnes. : 
Results of some recent Work on Rust of Wheat, by B. T. 
Galloway. erie tee se 
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