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  Professor 
  Craig: 
  1 
  second 
  that 
  motion. 
  I 
  would 
  like 
  to 
  add 
  just 
  

   a 
  word, 
  to 
  the 
  etfeet 
  that 
  it 
  seems 
  to 
  me 
  that 
  the 
  Secretary 
  has 
  started 
  

   out 
  in 
  a 
  very 
  promising 
  manner. 
  He 
  has 
  not 
  merely 
  performed 
  the 
  

   routine 
  duties 
  of 
  the 
  secretary, 
  but 
  he 
  has 
  studied 
  the 
  ease, 
  and 
  has 
  

   presented 
  in 
  an 
  analytical 
  and 
  striking 
  form 
  a 
  good 
  many 
  facts 
  not 
  ap- 
  

   parent 
  on 
  the 
  surface, 
  had 
  he 
  only 
  given 
  us 
  the 
  stereotyped 
  matter 
  in 
  

   the 
  conventional 
  way 
  ; 
  and 
  it 
  seems 
  to 
  me 
  that 
  this 
  augurs 
  well 
  for 
  the 
  

   future 
  of 
  the 
  Secretary's 
  office. 
  I 
  trust 
  he 
  can 
  keep 
  up 
  the 
  gait. 
  

   (Carried.) 
  

  

  Professor 
  Craig 
  : 
  May 
  I 
  say 
  that 
  it 
  seems 
  to 
  me 
  there 
  are 
  one 
  or 
  

   two 
  matters 
  arising 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  Secretary's 
  report 
  which 
  are 
  w'orthy 
  of 
  

   special 
  action 
  ? 
  One 
  is 
  the 
  question 
  of 
  the 
  invasion 
  of 
  the 
  scolytus 
  

   beetle; 
  the 
  other 
  is 
  the 
  nomenclature 
  of 
  Juglans 
  inandshurica. 
  It 
  

   occurs 
  to 
  me 
  that 
  it 
  might 
  be 
  well 
  to 
  appoint 
  committees 
  on 
  these 
  sub- 
  

   jects 
  to 
  report 
  during 
  the 
  sessions 
  of 
  the 
  society. 
  I 
  might 
  say 
  on 
  the 
  

   scolytus 
  matter, 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  conferred 
  with 
  Professor 
  Comstock, 
  who 
  

   has 
  been 
  kind 
  enough 
  to 
  say 
  he 
  would 
  place 
  the 
  matter 
  in 
  the 
  hands 
  

   of 
  one 
  of 
  his 
  assistants, 
  %vho 
  will 
  present 
  to 
  the 
  society 
  the 
  latest 
  we 
  

   have 
  on 
  that 
  subject 
  ; 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  event 
  of 
  a 
  committee 
  being 
  appointed, 
  

   I 
  would 
  suggest 
  that 
  that 
  person, 
  Professor 
  Herrick, 
  be 
  made 
  the 
  chair- 
  

   man 
  of 
  that 
  committee. 
  

  

  President 
  Morris: 
  I 
  will 
  appoint 
  Professor 
  Herrick 
  and 
  Professor 
  

   Craig 
  on 
  the 
  scolytus 
  committee, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  nomenclature 
  committee 
  I 
  

   will 
  appoint 
  Doctor 
  Deming 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Barron. 
  

  

  In 
  this 
  connection, 
  I 
  will 
  have 
  to 
  say, 
  however, 
  that 
  I 
  neglected 
  to 
  

   bring 
  my 
  correspondence' 
  relating 
  to 
  the 
  nomenclature 
  of 
  Juglans 
  

   maudshurica. 
  I 
  can 
  say 
  a 
  Avord 
  that 
  the 
  committee 
  may 
  wish 
  to 
  use. 
  

   For 
  a 
  long 
  while. 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  trying 
  to 
  trace 
  the 
  origin 
  of 
  the 
  name 
  

   Juglans 
  mandshnrica. 
  It 
  is 
  applied 
  to 
  tw^o 
  different 
  nuts. 
  The 
  one 
  de- 
  

   scribed 
  in 
  the 
  Ignited 
  States 
  government 
  bulletin 
  is 
  the 
  nut 
  originally 
  

   described 
  by 
  Maxim 
  as 
  Juglans 
  mand^hurica 
  more 
  than 
  thirty 
  years 
  

   ago. 
  That 
  nomenclature 
  has 
  priority 
  for 
  two 
  reasons 
  : 
  first, 
  because 
  of 
  

   the 
  date, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  second 
  place, 
  because 
  of 
  the 
  recognized 
  standing 
  of 
  

   ]\Iaxim 
  as 
  a 
  botanist. 
  The 
  Yokohama 
  Nursery 
  Company 
  has 
  been 
  

   sending 
  out 
  a 
  very 
  different 
  nut 
  which 
  they 
  call 
  Juglans 
  mandshurica, 
  

   evidently 
  of 
  the 
  race 
  of 
  Juglans 
  regia. 
  The 
  Juglans 
  mandshurica 
  of 
  

   the 
  government 
  bulletin 
  is 
  like 
  the 
  butternut, 
  the 
  Juglans 
  mandshurica 
  

   of 
  the 
  nursery 
  companies 
  is 
  evidently 
  a 
  race 
  of 
  Juglans 
  regia. 
  I 
  have 
  

   conferred 
  with 
  Doctor 
  Britton. 
  Sargent, 
  and 
  other 
  authorities, 
  and 
  we 
  

   have 
  never 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  trace 
  the 
  name 
  given 
  to 
  this 
  walnut 
  of 
  the 
  

   Juglans 
  regia 
  type. 
  Juglans 
  mandshurica, 
  until 
  by 
  accident 
  I 
  happened 
  

   to 
  get 
  word 
  from 
  the 
  Yokohama 
  Nursery 
  Company 
  to 
  the 
  effect 
  that 
  

   tliey 
  had 
  made 
  up 
  that 
  name 
  in 
  the 
  office 
  a 
  few 
  years 
  ago, 
  not 
  knowing 
  

  

  