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Percy Williams Bridgman, Ph.D., Cambridge, Mass. 

 James Mason Crafts, S.B., LL.D., Boston, Mass. 

 Henry Piatt dishing, Cleveland, Ohio. 

 Edward Murray East, M.S., Ph.D., Boston, Mass. 

 Frank Rattray Lillie, Ph.D., Chicago, 111. 

 William E. Lingelbach, A.B., Ph.D., Philadelphia. 

 Daniel Trembly MacDougal, A.M., Ph.D., Tucson, Ariz. 

 Charles Frederick Marvin, M.E., Washington, D. C. 

 Lafayette Benedict Mendel, A.B., Ph.D., Sc.D., New Haven, 

 Conn. 



Forest Ray Moulton, Ph.D., Chicago, 111. 

 EH Kirk Price, A.B., LL.B., Philadelphia. 

 Erwin Frink Smith, Sc.D., Washington, D. C. 

 William Morton Wheeler, Ph.D., Boston, Mass. 



Foreign Residents. 

 Frank Dawson Adams, D.Sc, Ph.D., F.R.S., Montreal. 

 Wilhelm L. Johannsen, M.D., Ph.D., Copenhagen. 

 Joannes Diderik van der Waals, Ph.D., Amsterdam. 



Morning Session — p.^^ o'clock. 

 William B. Scott, Sc.D., LL.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The following papers were read : 

 " Two New Terms, Cormophytaster and Xeniophyte, axio- 



matically fundamental in Botany," by William Trelease, 



Sc.D., LL.D., Professor of Botany, University of Illinois, 



Urbana. 

 " Origin and Vegetation of Salt Marsh Pools," by John W. 



Harshberger, Ph.D., Professor of Botany, University of 



Pennsylvania. 

 " The F2 Generations, and Back-, and Inter-crosses of the F^ 



Hybrids between GBnothera nutans and pycnocarpa," by 



George F. Atkinson, Ph.D., Head of Department of Botany, 



Cornell University. 

 " Inheritance through Spores," by John M. Coulter, A.M., 



Ph.D., Professor of Botany, University of Chicago. 



