80 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ory =e 
Company to accept another position. He will continue his private work in labora- 
tory photography and biology as heretofore, his address being 17 Birr Street, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Dr. F. L. Stevens has been promoted to the professorship of botany and 
vegetable pathology in the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic 
A new building is about to be constructed which will provide a well- 
equipped bacteriological laboratory, a plant-disease laboratory, and an elementary 
laboratory, together with offices for the professor and assistants, research rooms, 
and greenhouses for experimental work. 
ANNUAL REPORT of the Secretary of the Botanical Society of America 
embodied in Publication 24 is a statement of conditions and record of progress 
during the first decade of the existence of the Society. The total constituency 
of the Society now numbers 58, and its accrued funds amount to nearly three 
thousand dollars, a large part of which is treated as permanent endowment, the 
income only being used. Recently the policy was adopted of making grants. 
from current funds in aid of investigations by members and associates. ‘Thus 
far grants to the amount of $840 have been made. 
In order to promote unity of botanical interests a committee consisting of 
B. T. Galloway (chairman), C. R. Barnes, and C. E. Bessey has been appointed 
and requested to prepare a plan for cooperation with other botanical organiza- 
tions, for consideration at the eleventh annual meeting. 
The increasing demand upon the time allowed by the Society for the presenta- 
tion of scientific papers has made necessary the action of the Council in accepting 
only papers from members, associates, and persons specially invited by the Council 
to contribute. ‘ 
