140 THE PI.ANT WORI.D 



The Wild Flower Preservation Society 



of America. 



The Society has received a large accession of members during the 

 past month, the enrollments being the result chiefly of the lectures given 

 by the Secretary in various cities of New York, Ohio, Indiana and Illi- 

 nois. A full report of this lecture tour has been submitted to the New 

 York Botanical Garden, under whose auspices it was made. Later the 

 report will be published in The Plant World. 



The Secretary desires to take this opportunity of expressing his grati- 

 tude and personal obligation to the various officers of universities and 

 societies who by their active efforts and careful advance arrangements 

 contributed greatly to the success of the lectures. The social side of the 

 trip was one of its greatest pleasures, and the opportunity of personally 

 meeting those whom the Secretary had known only by reputation was 

 one which he greatly appreciated. 



THE SYRACUSE CHAPTER. 



At the close of Mr. Pollard's lecture in Syracuse on the evening of 

 May 13, a preliminary organization of the Syracuse Chapter was effected 

 with a membership of twelve persons. Mrs. L. ly. Goodrich was elected 

 president and Miss Ellen Beauchamp secretary. The permanent organi- 

 zation was entrusted to an executive committee of seven members. A 

 more detailed report will be published later, when the chapter has com- 

 pleted its membership and adopted plans for work. 



On the following day the members of the Syracuse Botany Club 

 entertained Mr. Pollard on an excursion to the home of the hart's-tongue 

 fern i^Phyllitis scolopendriuvi) at Jamesville. This is one of the plants 

 deserving of the most careful protection, as also the peculiar green 

 trilliums which are abundant at one station in that vicinity. 



CORRECTIONS. 



In the list of members of the Society published in last month's 

 issue of The Plant World the name of Miss V. S. White, of New 

 York City, a Fellow, should have been printed in capitals. The follow- 

 ing names were accidentally omitted : 



Eccles, Dr. R. G., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 Kaufman, Miss Pauline, New York, N, Y. 



