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The report of the committee on the Terminology of Plant 
Physiology was presented by Prof. Arthur. After full discussion, 
it was referred to a committee of five, consisting of the three mem- 
bers presenting the report and Professors Barnes and MacMillan; 
the committee was requested to report at the next meeting of 
the Section of Botany, A.A. A. S. 
The report of the committee on the Teimiapieey of Anatomy 
and Morphology was presented by Prof. MacMillan. A commit- 
tee of five, formed by the addition of Prof. Farlow and Mr. Roland 
Thaxter to the three members making the report, was appointed 
to further elaborate the subject and report it as in the two preced- 
ing cases. 
Prof. Trelease presented the report of the committee on the 
Nomenclature of Horticultural Forms, recommending that for the 
present the nomenclature of Nicholson’s Dictionary of Gardening 
and the Index Kewensis be followed. 
Professor Barnes reported for the committee on Bibliography 
and Typography, submitting a typographical scheme for the cita- 
tion of authors, which was adopted, and recommendations for se- 
curing a complete bibliography of literature relating to American 
botany, and the production of uniform card indexes to species, 
plates and papers, which were referred to a committee of five with 
Power to consider and approve means of publication. This 
committee consists of Prof. Barnes, Mr. Seymour, Prof. Britton, 
Mrs. Alice F. Stevens and Prof. A. S. Hitchcock. This com- 
mittee subsequently met and recommended the continuation of 
the Index to Recent Literature relating to American Botany pub- 
lished in the BULLETIN, with some modification of its present ar- 
rangement and typography, and approved the issue of card 
indexes to American species and illustrations of American plants 
as submitted by Mrs. Stevens and Miss Clark of the United States 
_ Department of Agriculture. 
Professors Bessey, Britton and Kellerman were appointed a 
committee to memorialize the United States Congress and the 
Secretary of Agriculture to provide safe and commodious quarters 
for the National Herbarium. 
The committee appointed to prepare resolutions relative to the 
death of Dr. Geo. Vasey, reported as follows: 
