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The A\^ild Flower Preservation 



Society. 



SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



The total enrollment to July 1, is as follows : Fellows 2, Members 

 107. These figures represent only paid members, there being many 

 pledges outstanding. The Society has attempted no extensive work as 

 yet, other than the free distribution of essays and circulars to those 

 applying for them, and to a selected list of persons in the more promi- 

 nent cities. It is the intention of the Secretary, during the late summer 

 and early fall to deliver a number of illustrated lectures on " Vanishing 

 Wild Flowei^ " in localities that seem to promise support of the move- 

 ment. Attention is directed, in this connection, to the rules governing 

 the formation of local chapters and the need of prompt organization of 

 many such. No Society of national scope can work without funds, and 

 to get funds we must have members, not singly or by tens, but by the 

 hundreds if possible. At the recent meeting of the Board, discussed 

 below, it was suggested as one of our fields of work that the railroads 

 should be induced to place land immediately^ around their tracks under 

 the guardianship of the Society, which could in this way save the flora 

 of many a wild bog through which the road passes, and which is now 

 sacrificed to the axe and the scythe. A large fund for printing is also 

 needed, for use in preparing leaflets to be distributed in the schools. 



Attention is called to a misprint in our circulars of information. 

 The fee for patrons of the Society is one hundred and not fifty dollars 

 as there appears. C. L. P. 



THE PITTSBURG MEETING OF THE SOCIETY. 



A most enthusiastic public meeting under the auspices of the Society 

 was held in the Botanical Hall of Phipps Conservatory, on the afternoon 

 of July 2. Short and stirring addresses were made by Mrs. N. L. Brit- 

 ton, Prof. Chas. E. Bessey and Prof. S. M. Tracy. In the absence of 

 other ofiicers, Mr. Charles L. Pollard, the Secretary, was in the chair, 

 and opened the meeting with a short address describing its organization 

 and aims. Mrs. Britton jjointed out various lines of activity, and Dr. 

 Bessey gave a practical illustration of the harm done by tourists in 

 Cheyenne Caiion, Colorado, a spot reached by trolley, and hence being 



