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by the Act of Incorporation was completed in June, 1895, and the 
Commissioners of Public Parks, in the following month, formally 
appropriated 250 acres of the northern part of Bronx Park for the 
purposes of the Garden. Since that time the preparation of plans 
for the development of the tract has been steadily progressing, in- 
cluding designs for the museum building and a large horticultural 
house. This planning is still in progress, in charge of a commis- 
sion of architects, engineers, gardeners and botanists, who will 
complete their work within a short time, and be ready to submit 
a complete scheme to the Board of Managers during the coming 
autumn. Meanwhile, much preliminary work has been accum- 
plished in clearing the ground, in grading, in the planting of bor- 
ders, in the establishment of an extensive nursery, and in the ac- ~ 
cumulation of herbarium, museum and lirbary material. Through 
a coOperative agreement entered into with Columbia University, 
the herbarium and botanical library of the University will be de- 
Posited with the Garden, and most of the research and graduate 
work of the University in botany will be carried on in the museum 
building, 
The endowment fund has been materially increased, and about 
430 persons have become annual members of the Garden, con- 
tributing ten dollars a year each to its support. The publication 
of a Bulletin has been commenced by the issue, in April, of the 
first number of Volume I. 
N. L. Britron. 
Proceedings of the second Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society 
of America, 
BurFao, N. Y., AucusT 21ST AND 22D, 1896. 
Subsequent to a meeting of the Council on the afternoon of 
Friday, August 21st, the Society met, with the retiring President, 
Dr. Wm. Trelease, in the chair, who introduced the President- 
elect, Prof, C. E. Bessey. Dr. Bessy addressed the Society in a 
brief and suggestive manner. The election of officers for the year 
1897~’98 resulted as follows: | 
