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and Professors Bessey, Kellerman and Atkinson and Mr. 
Galloway; the committee was requested to report at the 
next meeting of Section G, A. A. A. 8. 
The report of the committee on the Terminology of Plant 
Physiology was presented by Professor Arthur. After full 
discusssion, it was referred to a committee of five, consisting 
of the three members presenting the report and Professors 
Barnes and MacMillan; the committee was requested to 
report at the next meeting of Section G, A. A. A. S. 
The report of the Committee on the Terminology of 
Anatomy and Morphology was presented by Professor Mac 
Millan. A committee of five, formed by the addition of 
Professor Farlow and Mr. Roland Thaxter to the three 
members making the report, was appointed to elaborate the 
subject and report it as in the two preceding cases. 
Professor Trelease presented the report of the Committee 
on the Nomenclature of Horticultural forms, recommending 
that for the present the nomenclature of Nicholson’s Dic- 
tionary of Gardening and the Index Kewensis be followed, 
looking forward to the ultimate readjustment of the names 
on the principles approved at Genoa and in the United States. 
The report was adopted as read. 
Professor Barnes reported for the Committee on Biblio- 
graphy and Typography, submitting a typographical scheme 
for the citation of authors, which was adopted, and recom- 
mendations for securing a complete bibliography of literature 
relating to American botany, and the production of uniform 
card indexes to species, plates and papers, which were 
referred to a committee of five with power to consider and 
approve means of publication. This committee consists of 
Professors Barnes, Hitchcock and Britton, Mrs. Alice F. 
Stevens and Mr. Seymour. This committee subsequently 
met and recommended the continuation of the Index to 
Recent Literature relating to American Botany published in 
the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, with some 
modification of its present arrangement and typography, and 
approved the issue of card indexes to American species an 
