504 Botanical Meetings at Columbus, Aug. 17-25, 1899 



18. The Position of the Fungi in the Plant System. By H. 



L. Bollcy. 



19. Some botanical Notes by an F.ntomologist. By A. D. 



Hopkins. 



20. A Device for registering Plant- growth. By L. C. Corbett. 



21. Notes on some of the Work of the Division of Botany of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture. By O. F. Cook. 



The . Botanical Club organized by the Students and 



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Teachers of the Michiran Agricultural College. By W. J 



23. Introduction and Persistence of Coboniha CaroUniana on 

 the Grounds of the Michigan Agricultural College, By W. J. 



Beal. 



24. Distribution of certain Swamp Plants in Kansas. By A. 



S. Hitchcock. 



The following- officers were elected : President, F. S. Earle, 



Auburn, Ala.; Vice-President, A. D. "Selby, Wooster, Ohio; Sec- 

 retary, F. P:. Lloyd, New York City. 



8ULUVANT DAY 

 Wednesday, August 23d, was taken for a bryological memo- 

 rial to do honor to Sullivant and Pesqucreux. Relatives and 

 friends of these distinguished bryologists were present and por- 

 traits of both were loaned for exhibition. The tribute to Sullivant 

 written by Dr. Gray for the Supplement to the Icones Muscorum 

 was read by Professor Kellcrman. Twelve North American 



mosses named for Sullivant were loaned from the Sullivant collec- 

 tion at Harvard, with the original drawings. Duplicates of these 

 species from the Columbia University collection were also mounted 

 for exhibition as well as microscopic slides of them made by Mrs. 

 Britton, who gave a brief account of their subsequent history. Dr. 

 Charles R. Barnes read his tribute to Lesciuercux from the Botan- 

 ical Gazette, and Dr. Arthur HoUick supplied information on the 

 posthumous publication of his palaentological work, 

 gave a chronological record of the study of North American 

 mos.ses since 1850, illustrated by tables and exhibited pamphlets 

 and books which have been published since Lesquereux and 

 James' Manual in 1884. Portraits of botanists whose names are 

 perpetuated in those of American mosses were shown by P>- A. 



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