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ogy and Physiology with the general understanding that it would meet with 

 the American Society of Naturalists. It was further "resolved that the geo- 

 graphical range for meetings of this Society be limited to the region of 

 'Eastern Standard Time' as far south as Washington." ^^ W. G. Farlow was 

 elected president of the new organization. One of the actions taken was the 

 following: "Resolved that this Society recognizes the metric system as a 

 standard of measurement to be employed in its work, and members are re- 

 quested to observe this rule in the preparation of papers." ^^ Thus was 

 established a competing society to the Botanical Society of America, and the 

 two groups met separately for a number of years. By 1903 the Society for 

 Plant Morphology and Physiology had 72 members; many botanists, of 

 course, were members of both organizations. 



Returning to the account of the subsequent history of the Botanical 

 Society of America, it may be reported that the Society met in Toronto in 

 1897 with N. L. Britton as president. It is not my intention to give an 

 exhaustive history of the various meetings which occurred in subsequent 

 years, but I shall note a few events which may be of interest. The present 

 members of the Society will be interested in the fact that the announcement 

 of the Boston meetings of 1898 carries the statement that hotel rates were 

 to be from $1 to $2 per day. It should also be recalled that in that happier 

 era the Botanical Society enjoyed special rates on the railways of the coun- 

 try, namely, a provision of one and one-third fare for a round trip to the 

 meetings. The Society apparently was plagued by attendance difficulties, 

 because the minutes of the meeting carry this report: "The president then 

 stated the difficulty of proceeding with any business matters owing to the 

 absence of the secretary, the treasurer, and the secretary's records, also to 

 the lack of a quorum at the Council meeting which had been called at 1 :30." ^^ 

 In the evening the Society met at the appointed hour to hear the address of 

 the retiring president. However, President Britton announced that the ad- 

 dress would be postponed until the following day because the retiring presi- 

 dent, J. M. Coulter, had not arrived. On the next day Coulter again failed 

 to appear, and so B. M. Davis read Coulter's address. 



The membership of the Society continued to be small — in 1899, 18 charter 

 members remained in the organization, augmented by 15 others, making a 

 total of 33 members. By 1902 there were 57 members. 



At the 1902 Pittsburgh meetings of the Society, the organization approved 

 a plan for making grants-in-aid for investigations by its members in good 

 standing, providing that not more than $500 be used for this purpose in the 

 next year. At the 9th annual meeting held in Washington in December, 1902, 



^^Ibid., p. 1. 

 20 Ibid., p. 6. 

 -^Bot. Soc. Amer. Minutes, 1894-1926, p. 31. 



