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twenty-five cents, should be couskleivd charter members. Most of the 

 members returned home Saturdaj^ evening, but a small and enthusiastic 

 party waited until Monday and enjoj^ed a day's botanizing in the region 

 of Blackstrap in Falmouth. Altogether the meetings at Portland were 

 highly successful and encouraging, about one hundred people attending 

 the different sessions. 



PROVISIONAL CONSTITUTION. 



The Executive Committee of the Society held a meeting at Bowdoiu 

 College, Brunswick, December 31, 1895, and drew up a constitution for 

 consideration at the next meeting of the society. The time and place of 

 meeting, as well as the final programme, was left with the President and 

 SecretarJ^ The following provisional constitution has been made as 

 simple and direct as possible, and it will doubtless be adopted with only 

 slight changes: 



ARTICLE I. 



Xarae and Object. The name of this Organization shall be the Josselyn 

 Botanical Society of Maine ; and its object shall be to promote the study 

 of the Flora of the State. 



ARTICLE II. 



Officers. The officers shall be a President, five Vice-Presidents, a Sec- 

 retarj^, an Assistant Secretary and a Treasurer; and their duties shall be 

 those usually performed by such ofticers. They shall be elected annually, 

 and shall hold office until others are elected in their place. 



ARTICLE III. 



3Iembers7iip and Fees. Auj^ person interested in botany shall become a 

 member b_v vote of the Societ)-, and by payment of the necessarj' fee. 

 The initiation fee shall be one dollar. For the first j^ear of membership 

 there shall be no assessment, but after that there shall be an annual fee 

 of fifty cents. 



ARTICLE IV. 



Committees. Such Committees shall be appointed as the work of the 

 Society shall make necessarj-. The Executive Committee shall be com- 

 posed of the oflicers of the Society and the Chairmen of the various com- 

 mittees; and those present at any regularly called meeting shall have 

 power to transact the business of the committee. 



ARTICLE V. 



MeetuKjs. The Society shall hold an annual meeting. Special meet- 

 ings shall be called at the discretion of the Executive Committee. 



ARTICLE VI. 



Amendments. This Constitution may be amended at any meeting of the 

 Society by vote of two-thirds of the members present. 



