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To the Botanical Club, A. A. A. S.: 
Your committee on nomenclature, which was requested at the 
Springfield meeting to prepare a report, would respectfully sub- 
mit the following preamble and resolutions: 
Wuereas, A large number of requests for a list of all North 
American Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta has been received, 
and publication for such a list, when prepared, has been informally 
offered by the Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ; 
Resolved, That the committee be and hereby is authorized to 
prepare for publication a list of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta 
occurring in the United States and the British possessions of North 
America. 
Resolved, That the committee be and hereby is authorized to ~ 
prepare and publish a supplement to the “List of Pteridophyta 
and Spermatophyta of Northeastern North America,” such supple- 
ment to contain additions and published corrections to the List. 
Such publication has been promised by the Editor of the Torrey 
Botanical Club. 
Resolved, That the committee be and hereby is authorized to 
prepare a fuller statement of the rules adopted at the Rochester 
and Madison meetings, with examples illustrating their operation, 
and submit it to the Club at a subsequent meeting, for publication 
in the proposed List of North American Pteridophyta and Sperma- 
tophyta. 
For the Committee, : 
N. L. Brirron, Chairman. 
The report was discussed by Prof. Coulter and Prof. Bessey, was 
approved and the resolutions unanimously adopted. 
Mr. Pollard, on behalf of Dr. F. H. Knowlton and others, sub- 
mitted a resolution calling for the appointment of a committee to 
consider and report on the desirability of the Club publishing a 
journal. After considerable discussion, it was laid on the table. 
Prof. Barnes discussed the relative merits of the terms photo- 
syntax and photosynthesis, maintaining that the first was the more 
desirable. Prof. MacDougal considered that both terms were 
temporary, but inclined to the use of the second. 
Prof. Bessey remarked on the distribution of Pinus ponderosa 
in Nebraska, which to-day forms extensive forests on the summits 
of Pine Ridge (alt. 4,000 to 5,000 feet), in northwestern Nebraska, 
and extends eastward along the bluffs of the Niobrara River to 
within twenty-five or thirty miles of its mouth. It extends east- 
ward along the North Platte River and Lodge Pole Creek, nearly - 
