60 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



Object. To promote bibliographical research and to issue bibliographical publica- 

 tions. 



Meetings. Annual meeting at date and place of meeting of the American Library 

 Association; another meeting each year at date and place determined by the 

 council. 



Membership. 148, including 3life (annual dues, $3 ; life composition, $50) ; hon- 

 orary limited to 10. 



Publications. 



PROCEEDINGS AND PAPERS, v. i, pt. i, 1904/05. New York, 1906. 8. 



Price: $2. Edition of 300 copies. 

 Distribution. Not exchanged. Sold only to new members. 



The Botanical Society of America. 



Address. Secretary: D. S. Johnson, Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more, Md. 



History. 'Committee to consider the formation of an American botanical 

 society appointed upon resolution of the Botanical Club of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science at the Rochester meeting of 

 the association, Aug., 1892. Charter members elected at the Madison 

 meeting, Aug., 1893. Organization effected at the Brooklyn meeting, 

 Aug. 1894, as Botanical Society of America. United with Society for 

 Plant Morphology and Physiology (organized at Ithaca, N. Y., Dec. 

 27, 1897) and American Mycological Society (organized at St. Louis, 

 Dec. 29, 1903) in 1906 to form The Botanical Society of America. 



Ref.: Brief historical sketch of the society. Ithaca, 1899. 8. (Publica- 

 tion 10.) 



Object. Advancement of botanical knowledge. 

 Meetings. Annually, at such times and places as the council may select, usually in 



conjunction with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 Membership. 135 members (entrance fee, $5; annual dues, $5). 



Publications. 



Publications (before 1906), numbered consecutively, consist of: 



(a) Presidential addresses by William Trelease, Charles E. Bessey, 

 John M. Coulter, L. M. Underwood, B. L. Robinson, J. C. Arthur, 

 B. T. Galloway. 



Reprints from the Botanical Gazette, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 

 and Science. 



(b) Circulars, etc., relating to the business of the society. 



The Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology published its an- 

 nual Records (1898-1904?), containing lists of members, officers, 

 rules, synopsis of its meetings, etc., and occasional special committee 

 reports. 



Distribution. No arrangement for distribution to other than members and asso- 

 ciates. Presidential addresses distributed by the authors. 



