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The two volumes now published afford satisfactory material 
for a fair judgment upon the claims of the Flora as a whole, and 
every student of the pteridophytes and anthophytes of the region 
covered by it cannot fail to admire its excellence and feel surprised 
at the large number of new species gleaned from fields already well 
explored. The promise is that its appearance will give a fresh and 
lasting impulse to the study of systematic botany not only within 
the geographical limits chosen, but in other portions of our coun- 
try further south and west. Its moderate cost, in view of its great 
wealth of illustration, must bring it into general favor and use, 
even among those whose interest in the plant-world is not strictly 
or purely scientific ; and the wide diffusion of such accurate knowl- 
edge is a thing of inestimable value. 
The third volume, now in the printer’s hands, will be issued at 
an early day, perhaps before the year closes, and will end with the 
Compositae, the family to which the highest place in the vegetable 
creation has been assigned. 
Tuos. C, PorTER. 
Proceedings of the Club. 
TurEspAyY Eveninc, May I1, 1897. 
In the absence of officers, Dr. N. L. Britton was called to the 
chair. There were 13 persons present. 
Three new members were elected: Robert P. Leslie, George 
H. Payne, Miss Harriet M. Denison. 
The Chairman of the Field Committee, Dr. John K. Small, re- 
ported three excursions held as announced well attended and pro- 
ductive of much interest. 
The Club adopted the following resolutions presented by Dr. 
H. M. Richards, in memory of Dr. Gregory, the late honored pro- 
fessor of botany at Barnard College. 
« WHEREAS, our esteemed fellow member Miss Emily L. Gre- 
gory is lost to us by death, therefore, it is 
«Resolved, That in realization of our loss we express our deep 
sorrow for this sad event, at this untimely period when she was 
just about to enter upon a new era in her career as a teacher, to 
which we all, with her, had looked forward with sce anticipa- 
tions, and 
