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school, although without this training not ten per cent woukl 

 be able to avoid that fate. As much time is given to training 

 them to work as to book instruction, but the elevating influences 

 of the institution are educational and prove very advantageous 

 and beneficial to every one sent there. Dr. Rounds eonsidei'ed 

 it a model of its kind. 



0. B. Hadwen moved a vote of thanks to Dr. Rounds for the 

 valuable lecture he had delivered Itefore the Society, which was 

 unanimously passed. 



The Chairman of the Committee on Publication and Discussion 

 announced for the next Saturday, a lecture, under the John Lewis 

 Russell Fund, on "Diseases of Trees Likely to Follow Mechanical 

 Injuries,'' by William G. Farlow, Professor of Cryptogamic Bot- 

 any, Harvard University, Cambridge. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, March 7, 1891. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at eleven 

 o'clock, the President, William H. Spooner, in the chair. 

 No business being brought before the meeting it 

 Adjourned to Saturday, March 14. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



Diseases of Trees Likely to Follow Mechanical Ixjiries. 



By William G. Farlow, M. D., Professor of Cryptogamic Botany in Harvard 

 University, Cambridge. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: — On several occasions you have 

 listened to addresses on the subject of diseases of plants and the 

 nature of blight, mildew, rust, and smut, and the habits of 

 the fungi which cause them must now be more or less familiar to 

 you all. I, therefore, shall not attempt, today, to speak in detail 

 of any of the diseases just mentioned, l)ut I am glad that I have 

 been able to accept your invitation to address you at this particu- 

 lar time, because there is anotlu'r sul>ject of great importance, as 



