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Dr. R. T. Morris, and Mr. T. P. Littlepage, submitted a report 
recommending that the name of the organization be the Northern 
Nut-Growers’ Association, that residents of all parts of the 
country be eligible to membership, and that the officers be a 
president, a vice-president, and a secretary-treasurer. An execu- 
tive committee of five was also provided for, two of said com- 
mittee to be the president and secretary-treasurer. The annual 
dues were placed at $2.00, and life membership at $20.00. 
The recommendations of the committee were adopted. 
An interesting exhibition of nuts, and specimens illustrating 
methods of grafting, formed a feature of the meeting. Chestnuts, 
walnuts, and hickory nuts, including the pecan, were illustrated 
in much variety. Mr. T. P. Littlepage had a series of nuts of 
the pecan which he had collected from a number of selected trees 
in Kentucky and vicinity. One of these, almost globular in 
form, was of particular excellence, being of clean cleavage and 
delicious flavor. 
Dr. R. T. Morris was elected president; Mr. T. P. Littlepage, 
vice-president; and Dr. W. C. Deming, secretary-treasurer. 
GEoRGE V. Nasu. 
AN OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY THE ORIGIN AND 
DEVELOPMENT OF A TROPICAL FOREST. 
The Blue Mountain Region of Jamaica experienced during 
November and December, 1909, a number of days in which the 
rainfall was far greater than any before recorded for the island, 
and probably greater than any that has occurred in the same 
length of time during the past century. 
The effect of the disastrous floods, consequent upon this un- 
precedented rainfall, on the plant covering of the region about the 
Cinchona Tropical Station of the New York Botanical Garden 
is well worth recording. Such a record will not only be of interest 
in giving an idea of the immense changes wrought by these 
floods but also in suggesting the rare opportunity here presented 
for studying the extremely interesting problem of the recovering 
of a virgin soil with new vegetation. 
