248 THE PLANT WORLD 



DISBUESEMENTS. 



By payment to the Plant World Company $73 54 



By expressage 75 



By postage 1 78 



76 07 



By balance turned over to Treasurer $148 93 



$225 00 

 Respectfully submitted, 



Charles Louis Pollaed, Secretary. 

 I certify that the above accounts were correctly cast and properly 

 vouched for. 



F. H. Knowlton, 



Auditor for the Board. 

 Report ol the Treasurer for the year ending November 1, 1902 : 



RECEIPTS. 



To membership dues $124 00 



To five fellowships . 125 00 



$249 00 



EXPENDITURES. 



By the Plant World Co $92 38 



By postage and stationery of officers 7 83 



By printing of circulars, &c 65 00 



By cash on hand 83 79 



$249 00 



Carolyn W. Harris, Treasurer. 

 We certify that the above accounts were correctly cast and properly 

 vouched for. 



D. T. MacDougal, 

 N. L. Britton, 

 Elizabeth G. Britton, 

 Auditors for the Board. 



General Items. 



A press report states that Dr. Julius O. Schlotterbeck, professor of 

 botany in the University of Michigan, is about to make known officially 

 the discovery of seven new distinct vegetable poisons. Experiments to 

 test their properties are now being made on some of the lower animals. 

 Three of these poisons are derived from the Allegheny vine (Adlumia), 

 a plant of the poppy family. This already yields protopine, and Pro- 



