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neither. Science does part of the work; but I should like to see a journal 

 combining both extensive articles and numerous reviews. You have observed 

 probably that Americans furnish one-third or more of the copy for the 

 Annals. I do not believe in multiplying unnecessarily the journals; but do we 

 not need an American journal of Botany? The number of real botanists 

 is increasing in this country year by year. You can count twelve to twenty 

 now in this country who will be sure to publish year after year. I think I 

 said the same to you last summer. I would like to see Farlow take hold of 

 the matter and put some of his cash into it for a few years." It has become 

 a tradition in our society to reward members who make suggestions with the 

 task of initiating and executing these suggestions. 



The year 1915 appears to have been a noteworthy one, because in that 

 period 146 new members were elected to the Society. In 1916 J. Pierpont 

 Morgan was elected a patron of the Society "by unanimous rising vote." ^® 

 At the 1921 meeting of the Society there occurred an event which unfor- 

 tunately has not established a precedent in the organization. Dr. N. L. 

 Britton, the retiring president, was unable to give his presidential address 

 but instead sent the following communication to the Society: 'T regret that 

 administrative duties prevent my attending the annual meeting of the 

 Society, at which I will, however, be represented by my colleague, Dr. 

 Marshall Avery Howe, who has kindly consented to bring you this com- 

 munication and my accompanying check for $1000 to be applied to any part 

 of the work of the Society as it may be deemed most necessary or desirable. 

 With best wishes for a wholly successful meeting, I am, yours very truly, 

 N. L. Britton." ^' 



The 1925 meetings authorized the appointment of a committee to consider 

 the inauguration of a monthly leaflet of botanical notes and news which 

 would be of benefit to teachers, amateurs, and others. This suggestion re- 

 mained fallow for thirty years but finally came to fruition in January, 1955, 

 when the Society's Plant Science Bulletin appeared for the first time. 



I do not propose to give an account of the history of the Society after 

 1925, but shall leave this period for some other retiring president. I am sure 

 it will be understood that this has been a very sketchy historical account 

 and that many important actions and developments have been slighted. 

 Among these are the Society's activities with respect to the National Her- 

 barium, the National Arboretum, the defense of the Journal of Agricultural 

 Research, the formation of the National Research Council, and various steps 

 taken to aid the war effort during the First World War. Incidentally, during 

 the early years of the Society, it was customary to present resolutions upon 

 the death of its members, and these resolutions appear in the records of the 

 Society. In recent decades this practice has been discontinued. 



2«/6f(i., p. 177. "'^ Ibid., p. 237. 



