1895.] Section G, A. A. A. S. 407 
We have also made arrangements for the publication of a subject 
index of American literature. This will be begun with January, 1896. 
e committee received a grant of $25.00 from the A. A. A. S. to 
cover the cost of printing the rules for citation adopted by the section 
the i 
the council of the A. A. A. S. be requested to grant $5.00 additional 
for the expenses of the committee. 
C. R. BARNES, 
N. L. Britron, 
A. B. SEymour, 
Committee. 
The report was received and adopted. 
The Committee on Geographic Botany submitted the fol- 
lowing report: 
Your committee, in considering the importance of this subject in 
scientific, educational, and economic aspects,have thought it best sim- 
ply to point out for the use of those desirous of taking up the matter 
some of the more recent works on geographic botany, and certain 
salient points relative to its terminology and its study. 
We would call attention first to Drude’s Handbuch der Pflanzen- 
geographie! as the most complete résumé of the subject, and to his 
Atlas der Pflanzenverbreitung? as containing the most comprehensive 
floral maps. For the United States, we would recommend tu- 
dent the biologic maps issued about once a year from the Division of 
Ornithol an ammalogy, U artment of Agriculture, in 
ange: the region over which a type spontaneously grows. The 
word type is here used as a general term for which in particular in- 
phi variety, species, genus, or the name of any group may be sub- 
Stituted. 
_ Locality: the approximate geographic position of an individual spec- 
imen. A locality may be given in general terms as “Virginia,” or more 
definitely as “near Washington, D.C.,” or still more specifically as 
7Oscar Drupz. Handbuch der Pflanzengeographie. pp. 528. 8°. Stuttgart 
1890, 
2Oscar Drupg. Atlas der Pflanzenverbreitung. pp. 8. Eight maps. f°. 
Gotha 1887. (Berghaus’ Physikalicher Atlas, abth. 5.) 
