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Arthur for his efficient work in arranging for their meetings, and 
the club adjourned to meet next year at 9 A. M. on the second 
day of the meeting of the A. A. A.S. 
Entertainment of the Botanists at Buffalo. 
Fortunately for the Botanical Club of the Association, Buffalo 
possesses a very active Botanical Club, and the members of this 
for the entertainment of the visiting botanists. Time did not al- 
low the placing on the program of a tithe of the generous ideas 
their hearts suggested, but their spirit was shown by the num- 
berless little things which were done to make pleasant the meet- 
ings. Three special rooms were set apart for the accommodation 
of the club, and the unavoidable school-room bareness was re- 
lieved by the easy chairs, pictures and statuary which thought- 
fulness had provided. 
The special reception announced upon the program was held 
on Thursday evening, from 8 to 11, at the residence of Hon. 
David F. Day, on Cottage street. With a view to making 
strangers feel personally welcome, the local club took the trouble 
home. Thursday had found the ladies of the club busy in dee- 
of no mean proportions—while others repres 
collecting by the members of the club. Beside all these, every 
available place was filled with exotics, whose graceful foliage or 
Paar forms added much to the beauty of the rooms. e 
looming of a Cereus was awaited with interest, 
With wide-open water lilies. 
As everything possible in 
make the rooms beautiful, so was everyth 
made the guests feel at ease and to relieve t 
the way of decoration was done to 
ing possible done to 
he too common stiff- 
