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we would respectfully request the Secretary of Agriculture to urge 
upon Congress the desirability of prompt action in this matter. 
CHARLES E. BEsseEy, 
N. L. Britton, 
W. A. KELLERMAN, 
Committee. 
Resolutions tendering the cordial thanks of the Congress to 
Prof. Chas. R. Barnes and other members of the local committee 
of arrangements for their arduous labors in behalf of the comfort 
and ‘entertainment of the members, and to Dr. Otto Kuntze of 
Friedenau, Germany, for a supply of his pamphlets containing 
Proposed amendments to the Paris Code of Nomenclature, were 
Teported by the Committee on Resolutions and unanimously 
adopted. 
The Congress then adjourned. 
N. L. Britron. 
Organization of a Society of American Botanists, 
At the meeting of the Botanical Club of the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science, held at Madison, Wis- 
consin, August 23, 1893, a committee of ten botanists was selected 
by ballot to choose fifteen others, these twenty-five to be charter 
members of a new botanical society. The committee met the 
following morning and performed the duty assigned, the charter 
members thus chosen being as follows: J. C. Arthur, G. F. Atkin- 
Son, L. H. Bailey, C: R. Barnes, C. E. Bessey, E. G. Britton, N. 
_ L. Britton, D, H. Campbell, J. M. Coulter, F. V. Coville, Daniel 
C. Eaton, W. G. Farlow, E. L. Greene, B. D. Halsted, Arthur 
Hollick, Conway MacMillan, B. L. Robinson, C. S. Sargent, F. L. 
Scribner, J. Donnell Smith, Roland Thaxter, Wm. Trelease, L. M. 
Underwood, Lester F. Ward, W. P. Wilson. 
Two informal meetings of those of the above list in attendance 
on the Madison Botanical Congress were subsequently held, and 
a committee of organization appointed consisting of Prof. Wm. 
Trelease, Chairman; Prof. J. M. Coulter, Prof. Conway MacMillan, 
Prof. L. H. Bailey and Prof. C.S. Sargent. 
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