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No regular program had been prepared for this meeting, but 
notes detailing some results of the summer's work were presented 
by Drs. Rusby and Underwood, Mr. C. Van Brunt, Mrs. E.G. Brit- 
ton, Judge Brown, Mr. Eugene Smith, Mr. M. A. Howe and Miss 
Ingersoll. 
Dr. H. H. Rusby spoke of his work at the Kew Herbarium in 
identifying scme 2,000 plants of two Bolivian collections. As an 
indication of how the Columbia University has grown in the last 
few years, he noted that in working upa similar collection four 
years ago, he was able to determine but 5 or 6% by comparison - 
with the plants in this herbarium, while of the present collection 
nearly 50% were identified by this means. He added that the 
herbarium at Kew is also growing rapidly and in four years has 
added to its collections nearly half as many specimens as are in 
the Columbia Herbarium. 
Dr. L. M. Underwood supplemented these remarks by an ac- 
count of his experiences at Kew during the summer. One of the 
objects of his visit to Kew was to see the type specimens of Berke- | 
ley’s fungi, which he said were mostly described in two brief lines 
of Latin, and in the majority of cases the specimens were even 
briefer than the descriptions, and were in a very unsatisfactory 
condition. He was also able to clear up some vexed points in 
reference to common species of fungi, which had been described 
in England without reference to the species’ nearest allies, and 
were wrong in consequence. 
An investigation of the distribution of the ferns given by the 
Synopsis Filicum showed the allowance of such wide distribution, 
that under one name there are often several species, and in some 
cases as many as eight. Dr. Underwood remarked that the Kew 
Herbarium is superior to the Paris Herbarium even in the plants 
of the French provinces. Of these, many are represented at Kew 
and not at all at Paris. 
Mr. Cornelius Van Brunt spoke of his journey to the Selkirk 
and Rocky Mountains of British America, during which he made 
many photographs of new or interesting plants. 
Mrs. E. G. Britton remarked upon the abundance of Botrychium 
ternatum obliquum and B. t. dissectum on the Berkshire Hills of 
Mass., and mentioned the frequency of the fronds forking. She 
