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Following is the result of the election for members of the Board of 



Managers : 



Terms expire 1905 (to fill vacancies). 

 Mr. Charles L. Pollard, Prof. Francis E. Lloyd, 



Springfield, Mass. Teachers College, N. Y. 



Terms expire 1907. 

 Mr. Frederick V. Coville, Dr. William Trelease, 



U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Missouri Botanical Garden. 



Prof. W. A. Kellerman, Prof C. F. Wheeler, 



Ohio State University. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



During the present year, the policy of the Secretary has been to 

 co-operate with all persons and associations interested in any way in the 

 preservation of native plants, either by the dissemination of literature 

 or information, so as to make the object of the Society widely known, 

 and to secure the a.ssistance of various organizations. With this end in 

 view we have exchanged publications with the Society for the Protection 

 of Native Plants, and used many of their leaflets, duplicates of which 

 we have had from time to time. We have found them extremely useful 

 and reconimeiid that similar leaflets or reprints of some of theirs be made 

 for distributio7i next year . 



Through the interest and activity of Dr. and Mrs. C. F. Millspaugh 

 much interest has been aroused for the preservation of the wild flowers 

 in the vicinity of Chicago. Dr. Millspaugh has had a number of colored 

 lantern slides made, and lectures prepared, some of which have been 

 delivered, and through the Woman's Auxiliary of the American Out- 

 door Art Association, of which Mrs. Millspaugh is president, several of 

 the women's clubs have had meetings devoted to the preservation of 

 the wild flowers and of forests. 



Miss Mary P. Anderson, Supervisor of Nature Study in the Univer- 

 sity School for Girls in Chicago, won the first of the Stokes prizes with her 

 essay on " The Protectio7i of Our Native Plants.'' This essay was twice 

 reprinted and hundreds of copies were distributed to the students of 

 Chicago and to various other schools and colleges. Miss Anderson has 

 subsequently become connected with Mt. Holyoke, and we hope that her 

 sphere of influence will widen through the work of the students of that 

 institution. 



Miss Broadhurst, of the Trenton New Jersey State Normal School, 

 received the second of the Stokes Prizes and her ' ' Plea to Teachers for 

 the Protection of Our Native Plants'" is brief and pertinent and we hope 

 has reached many conscientious teachers and a large circle of students 

 who hope to become teachers. We can not emphasize too greatly the 

 help that teachers can give to this effort ; if we can only get them 

 interested, success is certain. 



