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Special meetings of the Corporation and of the Board of Man- 
agers were held at the Mansion, and Mr. John L. Merrill was 
elected a manager to fill the unexpired term of the late James A 
Scrymser, and Mr. Merrill was also elected Treasurer to succeed 
r. Scrymser 
On Thursday, October 17, at 3 P.M. at the Mansion, a lecture 
on ‘‘The use of Plants and Flowers in Design’”’ was delivered by 
of originality ad patriotism in the industrial arts and advocated 
a greater and better use of native plants, insisting that repe- 
titions and variations of ancient designs, and drawings from 
American laurel, wach has been ares as our national 
flower; also Indian and Ka ffir corn, millet, hemp and various 
m ni 
Art teachers. Hee a T. Bach, of the rama ee 
Museum of Art, and Dr. James P. Haney, of the Department 
of Education, very kindly addressed them and gave them prac- 
tical advice and information. 
The library has recently acquired the ‘“‘ Sertum Palmarum Bra- 
siliensium "’ by J. Barbosa Rodrigues. This work, which is in 
two large portfolios, contains nearly one hundred and seventy- 
five colored folio plates of Brazilian palms with accompanying 
descriptions in Latin. It was published in Brussels in 1903 at 
the expense of the Brazilian government. 
