264 The Botanical Gazette. [September, 



Mr. Mart 



importance of learning still more of the distribution of this 

 species. Mr. Canby thought it a good species. He had 

 specimens in his herbarium from N. Carolina collected by 

 Curtis. 



Resolutions were heartily adopted thanking the Botanical 

 Club of Washington for the handsome souvenirs, and for 

 other attentions, which added to the pleasure of the botanists 

 in attendance upon the association. 



The following officers were elected for the next meeting: 

 President, V. M. Spalding, of Ann Arbor, Mich., Vice-Pres- 

 ident, J. M. Coulter, of Bloomir 



Fairchild, of Washington, D. C. 



The Botanical Section of the American Association of Agri- 

 cultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. 



Washington Meeting. 



GEO. F. ATKINSON, SKC V Y pro tent. 



The Section met August 13, in Columbian University, with 

 Chairman B. D. Halsted presiding and Geo. F. Atkinson as 

 secretary pro tern. No program being prepared the chairman 

 called upon the members for volunteer papers and discussions. 



TRACY, of Mississippi, outlined a plan for the botanical ex- 

 hibit at the Columbian Exposition. Various subjects have 

 already been assigned to specialists, and station workers in 

 botany are requested to suggest other lines of investigation 

 they are engaged upon than those included in the subjects al- 

 ready apportioned. Each one should estimate the amount of 

 space his exhibit would require. The Department of Agri- 

 culture will probably provide uniform labels and probably 

 also uniform size and quality of sheets for mounting speci- 

 mens. Botanists have shown great interest in undertaking 

 the work. Considerable discussion followed in reference to 

 the proper place for the exhibit of fungicides and spraying 

 machinery. The general sentiment seemed to be in favor of 

 a combined exhibit of fungicides and insecticides and machin- 

 ery, by the botanists, horticulturists, entomologists, and agn- 



