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native wild flowers,” 
yet been formed. Every botanical club and society should at 
once organize itself into such a society and furnish a large 
membership for the central organization already formed. 
t each such club begin at once to study local needs and the 
best means of meeting them. The plants in need of protection 
should be noted and means taken for their protection, lectures 
should be given and literature distributed. There are enough 
such clubs already in existence to carry out the needed measures 
with success, and it is to these that this article is addressed as 
an appeal. 
unadvisedly for few local societies have as 
A. J. Grout. 
Boys’ HicH ScHOOL, BRooKLyN, N. Y. 
PROGRAMME FOR THE THIRD ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE ae aera SOCIETY OF NEW 
YORK AT THE NEW YORK ace 
GARDEN, oe oe MAY 14, 19 
Members and their friends leaving Grand Central Station, 
Harlem Division, by the 1.35 P. M. train for Bronx Park (Bot- 
anical Garden) Station, will be met at Bronx Park Station by 
Mr. James Wood, President of the Society, and escorted to the 
Conservatories. 
Members and their friends leaving Grand Central Station by 
the 2.35 P. M. train will be met at Bronx Park Station by Dr. 
D. T. MacDougal, First Assistant, New York Botanical Garden, 
and escorted to the Conservatories. 
Leaving the Conservatories at 3.35 the party will walk through 
the grounds to the Museum Building ; the Formal Meeting will 
commence in the Lecture Hall of the Museum Building at 4.15 
o'clock, and will be followed by an exhibition by Dr. N. L. Brit- 
ton, of lantern slides illustrating ‘‘ Features of the New Zealand 
Flora,” contributed to the Garden by Mr. L. Cockayne. 
Members and friends leaving Grand Central Station by the 
3.35 P. M. train will arrive at Bronx Park Station in time for the 
meeting. 
