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The annual dues are one dollar for membership; for fellows, 
twenty-five dollars ; for patrons, fifty dollars, fellows and patrons 
being exempt from the payment of further dues. The Plant 
World was designated as the official organ of the society and is 
sent free to members of all classes. The by-laws and additional 
details concerning the society will be published in the Plant 
orld for May. 
This is the most important step taken in the promotion of 
public sentiment in the matter, and the journal in question will 
serve as a very efficient means of publicity and general distribu- 
tion of literature which will advance the aims of the society. 
The officers for 1g02 are as follows: President, Frederick V. 
Coville, Washington, D. C.; vice-president, D. T. MacDougal, 
New York City; secretary, Charles Louis Pollard, 1854 Fifth 
street, Washington, D. C.; treasurer, Mrs. Carolyn W. Harris, 
125 St. Marks avenue, Brooklyn, New York; managers, Mrs. E. 
G. Britton, New York City; Miss Alice Eastwood, San Fran- 
cisco; L. H. Bailey, Ithaca; E. L. Morris, Washington; C. F. 
Millspaugh, Chicago, IIl.; C. D. Beadle, Biltmore, N. C.; Joseph 
Crawford, dhe Pay Charles E. Bessey, Lincoln, Nebr.; 
Walter Deane, Cambridge, s.; William Tee St. Louis, 
Mo., and F. H. a ate D.C 
Three of the larger specimens of the giant cactus (Cereus 
giganteus) recently brought from Arizona are now in bloom in 
house No. 6 of the conservatories. 
The total precipitation in the Garden during May, 1902, 
amounted to 1.85 inches. 
Maximum temperatures of 67° on the 2d, 75.5° on the 7th, 80° 
on the 17th, 89.5° on the 22d, and 86° on the 23d were observed. 
Also minima of 41.5° on the 4th, 36.5° on the roth, 4o° on the 
1sth, 43° on the 21st, 44° on the 28th, and 4o" on the 2oth. It 
is to be noted that the month has been entirely free from frost 
and freezing temperatures. 
he meteorological apparatus was removed to the nursery on 
May 2d. A soil thermograph constructed after a design by Pro- 
fessor William Hallock, of Columbia University, has also been in- 
stalled and a continuous record is now being taken of the tem- 
