Ix Proceedings of the Botanical Society of 



On Saturday evening, May 17, 1902, the Society held a 

 highly successful Scientific Assembly. From 5 to 7 p. m. 

 officers of the Society conducted parties through the Garden 

 and greenhouses of the University. Lunch supper vi^as then 

 served in the Botanical Library Hall. 



At 7.45 Provost Harrison, Honorary President of the 

 Society, opened the Assembly, and thereafter twenty lec- 

 turettes, of twenty minutes each, were given in four of the 

 rooms of Biological Hall to crowded audiences. Macro- 

 scopic and microscopic demonstrations, micro-lantern 

 exhibits and explanations of special plant groups in the 

 greenhouses were made during the evening. 



The financial proceeds of the Assembly were donated for 

 further development of the Botanic Garden. 



October 4. Dr. Miller, President, in the chair. The 

 chairman presented a condensed report on the year's 

 progress. 



Dr. H. S. Conard then described "Botanizing Across the 

 Continent." He carried the audience in imagination along 

 the plant regions of vhe Mississippi Valley, the western 

 prairies with their wealth of floral display, into the arid 

 regions of New Mexico, and then on to California, refer- 

 ring to the prevailing types of vegetation in each. An inter- 

 esting description was given of the region that formed the 

 objective point of the trip, viz., the Olympic peninsula of 

 Washington. Here the vegetation was so dense as to be 

 almost impenetrable, the trees were regularly six to twelve 

 feet in diameter and very tall. Nearly all of them were 

 coniferous and included the tideland spruce, Douglas fir, 

 western hemlock and red cedar. Some three hundred species 

 of plants were found in this region. Returning via Idaho, 

 a stop was made to collect Nymphcca Lcibergii, which was 

 successfully located in a small pond of that State. 



Miss Marion Mackenzie next spoke on "Recent Investi- 

 gations Regarding the Relation of Atmospheric Electricity 

 to Plant Growth." These were made by Professor Lem- 



