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showed the specimens and a fine set of water-color drawings 
in illustration. 
Mr. Francis Windle described ‘ Fasciated and Proliferous 
specimens of Rudbeckia hirta and of Erigeron canadense.” 
The latter showed proliferous receptacular shoots, each of 
which developed one or more secondary heads or flowers. 
Professor Kraemer described ‘‘The Crystals of Datura 
Stramonium.” He stated that one form of crystal of small 
size occurred in the root, two in the stem, the same number in 
the leaves, but there each type in inverse ratio as regards 
quantity and shape to those inthe stem. One or other type 
occurred also in the flower stalk and floral leaves. Drs. 
Leffmann, Miller and Kraemer then discussed the possible 
mode of origin and chemical relation of oxalate crystals. 
Dr. Harshberger made ‘“‘A Review of Recent Fungologi- 
cal Literature,” including works by Massee, Underwood and 
Green. 
December r. Dr. Miller in the chair. Miss Mira L. Dock 
described ‘“‘ Arboretums and Botanic Gardens Abroad.” She 
spoke of a recent visit to the Royal Gardens at Kew and 
Edinburgh, and described the plant houses of each. The 
botanic gardens at Chelsea, Bonn, Zurich and Paris were then 
passed in review The herbaria at the British Museum and 
Oxford University were of special interest as containing the 
collections of Catesby, Dillenius and Clayton. In connection 
with Miss Dock’s observations on forestry, Professor Macfar- 
lane spoke of the remarkable forestry development initiated 
fully a century ago by Duke John of Athol. The speaker 
stated that no more successful financial venture had been 
undertaken, than the planting of extensive forests of spruce 
and larch, which now clothed the Athol estate. 
The Secretary exhibited a fossil sago palm, Cycadeoidea 
Wielandi, one of a rich collection of fossil sago palms obtained 
in the Black Hills, and now in the Yale collection of the late 
