The Plant World 



A Monthly Journal of General Botany 



Established 1897 



Edited by 



Forrest Shreve 



Published by 



The Plant World Association 



COMPOSED OF THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS: 

 Charles Louis Pollabd, Founder 



Joseph Chables Arthur 



Purdue University 

 Otib William Caldwell 



Teacher's College, Columbia University 

 William Austin Cannon 



Desert Laboratory 

 J. Arthur Harr3 



Station for Experimental Evolution 

 Burton Edward Livingston 



Johns Hopkins University 

 Francis Ernest Lloyd 



McGill University 

 Edwin Bennett McCallum 



Continental Rubber Company 



Daniel Trembly MacDougal 



Carnegie Institution of WaabinstoD 

 James Bertram Overton 



University of Wisconsin 

 George James Peirce 



Stanford University 

 Herbert Maule Richards 



Columbia University 

 Forrest Shreve 



Desert Laboratory 

 John James Thornber 



University of Arizona 

 Edqar Nelson Transeau 



Ohio State University 



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