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The most important matter of business that came before the 

 Society was the report of the committee on the new botanical 

 journal. This provides for a co-operative arrangement with 

 the Brooklyn Botanic Garden which has made possible the im- 

 mediate publication of the journal. This publication is known 

 as the American Journal of Botany and it will be sent to all 

 members of the Society. The first issue for January 1914 has 

 already appeared. It will do a great deal to relieve the con- 

 gestion of material that now exists in the sources of publica- 

 tion in this country. 



Mr. A. S. Hitchcock, the well known agrostologist of the 

 TJ. S. Department of Agriculture was elected president for the 

 ensuing year. 



W. C. COKEK. 



