The Plant World 



A Monthly Magazine of General Botany 



Established 1897 



Edited by 



Forrest Shreve 



Published by 



The Plant World Association 



COMPOSED OF THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS: 



Joseph Chari-es Arthub 



Purdue University 

 Otib William Caldwell 



Unlverptty of Chicago 

 William Austin Cannon 



Desert Laboratory 

 Charles Stuart Gageb 



Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 J. Arthur Harris 



Station for Experimental Evolution 

 Burton Edward Livingston 



Johns Hopkins University 

 Francis Ernest Llotd 



McGlll University 

 Daniel Trembly MacDouoal 



Carnegie Institution of Washington 



James Bertram Overton 



Unl^-erslty of Wisconsin 

 George James Pbirce 



Stanford University 

 Charles Louis Pollard 



Staten Island Association 

 Herbert Maule Richards 



Columbia University 

 Forrest Shreve 



Desert Laboratory 

 Volnet Morgan Spalding 



Loma Linda, California 

 John James Thornber 



University of Arizona 

 Edgar Nelson Transeau 



Eastern Illinois Normal School 



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