PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



The sixteenth annual meeting of the Botanical Society of Washington 

 was held in Room 32 of the Bureau of Plant Industry building, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, at 1.30 p.m., October 16, 1916, with 

 W. E. Safford acting chairman and H. L. Shantz acting secretary. 



The minutes of the fifteenth annual meeting were read and approved 

 and the report of the Executive Committee read and approved. The 

 report of the Treasurer was read and an Auditing Committee, con- 

 sisting of P. L. Ricker and G. P. Van Eseltine, appointed by the 

 Chair. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, 

 T. H. Kearney; Vice-President, Edgar L. Brown; Recording Secretary, 

 Charles E. Chambliss; Corresponding Secretary, H. L. Shantz; 

 Treasurer, F. D. Farrell. 



Mr. A. S. Hitchcock was nominated by the society as Vice-President 

 of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 



The 115th regular meeting of the Society was held at the Cosmos 

 Club Tuesday, November 7, 1916, at 8.00 p.m. 



Mr. Michael Shapovalov, Dr. Howard G. MacMillan, Dr. 

 Joseph Rosenbaum, and Mr. F. E. Miller were elected to membership 

 in the Society. 



Under Brief Notes and Reviews of Literature, Mr. W. T. Swingle 

 called attention to a recent edition of an ancient Chinese work on bot- 

 any, The Cheng lei pen ts'ao, originally published in 1108 A.D. Dr. 

 A. T. Tenaka reviewed briefly a recently issued Hand Book of Plant 

 Diseases of Japan, by Jinzo Matsumura. 



The following papers were presented: 



Notes on the life of John Bradbury: R. H. True. Information 

 concerning the life of this early naturalist and explorer of the Missouri 

 Valley is very meager. A considerable addition has been gained from 

 the correspondence carried on between Bradbury and Thomas Jefferson, 

 who greatly influenced the course of Bradbury's life and work in this 

 country. Bradbury's life, as gathered from this and other available 

 sources, was sketched in outline. 



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