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tude than the former. Mr. Howland Russel exhibited some specimens 

 of Selaginella, a plant new to our region, and also some specimens of 

 Oenothera cruciata, one of DeVries mutants. 

 The meeting then adjourned. 



Milwaukee, December 10, 1908. 



Regular monthly meeting of the society. 



President Teller in the chair and about ninety persons present. 



The minutes of the last regular monthly meeting were read and 

 approved. 



The names of Mrs. Charles Catlin. Miss Helen Sherman, and Messrs. 

 A. C. Katze-Miller, Louis F. Frank, William Hinrichs, Walter N. Gold- 

 schmidt, B. Frank Adler, Robert G. Washburn, Richard W. Houghton, 

 James G. Jenkins, Walter Stern, Frederick L. Pierce, George P. Miller, 

 George Burroughs, Alexander R. Houston, Albert C. Elser, Robert 

 Nunnemacher, Charles S. Forsyth, William MacLaren, Charlie B. Whit- 

 nall, Gustav Pabst, George P. Mayer, Edward M. Hyzer, Clarence R. 

 Falk, William J. Grant, Alvin P. Kletzsch, Richard Dewey, Louis Mayer, 

 A. S. Lindemann, Joseph E. Uihlein, Rudolph G. Richter, Nelson P. 

 Hulst, Thomas E. Barr and Ralph M. Friend were proposed for mem- 

 bership in the society and later elected by the board of directors. 

 There being no further business, Mr. Henry C. Pearson, editor of The 

 India Rubber World and an expert of world-wide reputation, addressed 

 the meeting on India Rubber. The speaker told of the sources of 

 crude India rubber, wild and cultivated in Southern and Central Amer- 

 icas, Africa and Ceylon, and the Malay States. He then gave a general 

 resume of the rubber manufacturing business, telling of the great 

 factories of the world and explaining various processes used in making 

 modern products. The lecture was illustrated by a remarkable series 

 of lantern slides, in great part made from photographs taken by Mr. 

 Pearson in many far-off and little-known parts of the world. At the 

 conclusion of the lecture, President Teller thanked the speaker for his 

 extremely interesting talk, after which the meeting adjourned. 



Milwaukee, January 28, 1909. 



Regular monthly meeting of the society. 



President Teller in the chair and about 100 persons present. 



The minutes of the last regular monthly meeting were read and 



