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February 1897, eleven other botanists were invited to join and 

 cooperate with the committee, each of whom accepted: George 

 Lincoln Goodale, Chira E. Cummings, D. I\ Penhallow, Cj. E. 

 Stone, \V. C. Sturgis, J. E. Humphery, E. A. Burt, Galloway, 

 Atkinson, Bailey, and Smith. December 27, 1897, the committee 

 met at Ithaca, New York, where was scheduled to take place the 

 sixteenth annual meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, 

 in conjunction with meetings of the Association of American 

 Anatomists, the Association for Botanical Morphology and Phy- 

 siology, the American Morphological Society, the American Phy- 

 siological Societ)', the American Psychological Association, and 

 Section H, or Anthropology, of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. The committee resolved to " constitute 

 itself a society for the promotion of research in Plant Morphology 

 and Physiology, with the general understanding that it shall meet 

 with the American Society of Naturalists," and " that its name 

 shall be Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology!' 



About thirty botanists were present at the Society's first meeting 

 and an equal number of papers was listed on the program.^* 

 Smith published abstracts of several of the papers: his own "Addi- 

 tional Notes on the Bacterial Brown Rot of Cabbages " and 

 " Occurence of Kramer's Bacterial Disease on Sugar Beets in the 

 United States," Albert F. Woods' " Variable Reaction of Plants 

 and Animals to Hydrocyanic Acid," one by Webber, two by 

 Swingle, one by Benjamin Minge Duggar, and one by Harper, 

 among them. Botanists elected to membership included Spalding, 

 Webber, Swingle, W. W. Rowlee, J. W. Harshberger, Fairchild, 

 Harper, Woods, A. J. Pieters, a graduate of the University of 

 Michigan and whom Newcombe had recommended for employ- 

 ment by the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology, 

 G. H. Hicks, H. C. Porter, Harriet L. Merrow, and Theo. Holm. 

 Farlow w^as elected the Society's first president; Macfarlane and 

 Atkinson, vice presidents; Ganong, secretary-treasurer; and Smith 

 was named chairman of the committee on membership for a period 

 of three years. Serving on the committee with him were Miss 

 Cummings, Fairchild, Spalding, and Bailey. In the forum dis- 

 cussion of the American Society of Naturalists on " The Biological 



^* Erwin F. Smith, The first meeting of the Society for Plant Morphology and 

 Physiology, Amer. Naturalist 32 (374): 96-110, Feb. 1898. 



