ANNUAL MEETING, MINNESOTA STATE FORESTRY ASS'N, 59 



A number of resolutions were offered and adopted, embodying: 

 First, a vote of thanks to the county commissioners for the free use 

 of their rooms. Second, commending the course of the Board of 

 Regents of the University in deciding to ask the legistature for an 

 appropriation of $35,000 for a building for Horticulture, Forestry, 

 Botany and Physics for the School of Agriculture. Third, express- 

 ing appreciation of interest in and of the assistance rendered the so- 

 ciety in the past by Col. Stevens and tendering sympathy in his ser- 

 ious illness. Fourth, instructions to the secretary to prepare and 

 forward suitable resolutions of thanks to the retiring president,Hon . 

 S. M. Owen; and also one in remembrance of the efficient services 

 rendered by the late secretary, J. O. Barrett. Fifth, commending the 

 work of Gifford Pinchot, chief of the United States Division of 

 Forestry, in authorizing a forest survej'' of Minnesota. 



Article XI of the constitution was amended so as to leave the time 

 and place of meeting with the executive committee instead of a 

 fixed date, and undoubtedly the association will hereafter hold its 

 annual session in connection with that of the state horticultural 

 society. 



THE MINNEAPOLIS MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY-ITS 

 OBJECT AND WORK. 



W, M. BABCOCK, MINNEAPOLIS. 



At your last meeting, a paper was read by Dr. Mary Whetstone on 

 ''The Mushroom as a Food," which was printed in the July number 

 of the Minnesota Horticulturist. Since then, a society has been 

 formed in this city for the purpose of studying and making use of 

 the mushroom, that excellent food product, growing so abundantly 

 about us and yet so little known. It is my purpose to tell you 

 something of the work and aims of the society. 



In the first place, the object of the Minneapolis Mycological Society 

 is the study and classification of mushrooms, popularly called 

 toadstools. 



Second, the testing of edible ones and gathering them for inter- 

 change among the members of the society and other persons 

 interested, as well as their exchange with other societies having 

 similar aims. 



Third, experimentation on the best methods of preparing and 

 cooking such as we find to be edible. 



Fourth, and most important of all, spreading the knowledge 

 acquired among the public, and inducing people to try the different 

 varieties known to, be fit for food. 



It is on account of the latter aim that I come before you today. 

 We want you to know that there is a society in this state whose 

 purpose it is to introduce and spread the knowledge of the mush- 

 room as a food product. To do that we desire your assistance. We 

 live in the city; most of you live in the country, with fields and 

 woods to surround you. You live near the home of the mushroom ; 

 we have to make special trips to find them. We want your 

 co-operation ; we want you, when you find specimens that you have 

 the least doubt about to box them up, packed in soft paper and send 



