_ December 7, 1907 129 
THE RIVERSIDE BOTANICAL CLUB 
The Riverside Botanical Club met on Friday evening, Oc- 
tober 18th, in the botanical laboratory of the High School to 
discuss and prepare a program of work for the Club season of 
1907-08. As it had already been decided to spend the season 
in the study of the local genera and species of Composites, it 
only remained to apportion the work among. the members, and 
decide on the best way to inake the programs as practical and 
instructive as possible. - It was decided to follow the sequence 
of genera used by Abrams in his “Flora of Los Angeles and Vi- 
cinity.” Each member will be responsible for a genus in turn, 
‘and may get as much help as he or she may see fit; and in dis- 
cussing the characteristics of the genus before the Club use the 
black-board or chart or any other available method of presenta- 
tion, with the object of making the principal characters of each 
genus so thoroughly understood that all wi be helped in rec- 
ognizing it whenever it is found. 
Mrs. Wilder was appointed to prepare a report on the inter- 
national rules of nomenclature. 
This Club was organized in July, 1903, and has been work- 
ing along with a small but steady membership, and has been 
successful in bringing the local botanists together for study and 
the mutual friendliness that springs up among people who are 
interested in the same lines of work and study. The ineetings 
are largely informal, there are no financial obligations, no at- 
tempt is made to make the meetings “popular” or “entertaining” 
except to those actually interested. We meet on the Friday 
evening nearest the full moon for the-benefit of members from 
out of town, from October to June of each year. 
FRED. M. REED, Secretary. 
