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rapidly devasted of its floral beauties. Prof. Tracy outlined a plan lie 

 had devised for securing the cooperation of the railroads. 



Previous to this, the Board of Managers held a meeting and disposed 

 of a number of routine matters. It was decided to invest all sums re- 

 ceived from those enrolling as Fellows or Patrons in a permanent fund, 

 to be known as the Life Membership Fund, and to use only the income 

 of these sums during the lifetime of the members. The Misses Caroline 

 and Olivia Phelps-Stokes, were elected honorary Vice-Presidents of the 

 Society. 



NOTES. 



The name of Mr. A. M. Read, of Washington, D. C, was accidentally 

 omitted from the list of managers printed in the April issue of The 

 Plant World. 



Who will be the first one to organize a local chapter in his neigh- 

 borhood ? As yet none have been formed, and in the future it will be 

 an honor to have the privilege of standing first on our list. 



New York City has fiirnished two Fellows for the Society. When 

 shall we have the privilege of enrolling a Patron ? 



The full membership list will be printed in connection with the 

 annual report of the Board, toward the close of the current year. 



One of our members recently found a plant of a rare lily, Lilium 

 CaroUniauum, in the woods near his home. It grew in a rather precar- 

 ious situation, and instead of plucking the stalk he lifted the entire plant, 

 bulb and all, and transplanted it to a congenial situation on his own 

 estate, where it is apparently thriving. This is a course that can be 

 followed to advantage in many instances where to leave a variety in its 

 original habitat would be to invite certain destruction. 



In this issue appears the last of the three prize essays in the Stokes' 

 Fund competition of the New York Botanical Garden. Through the 

 courtesy of the latter a number of the essays in the competition un- 

 successful have been turned over to the Society, and such as are deemed 

 suitable will be published from time to time in The Plant World, 

 either as a whole or in part. 



