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Memiers.—The following associates were 

 elected members : 



Benjamin Minge Dviggar, Professor of Botany, 

 University of Missouri; Rodney Howard True, 

 Physiologist, Bureau of Plant Industry, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; Francis Ernest Lloyd, Professor of 

 Biological Science, Teachers' College, Columbia 

 University; George Thomas Moore, Physiologist, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C. ; 

 Lewis Ralph Jones, Professor of Botany, Univer- 

 sity of Vermont. 



Associates.— The following persons were 

 elected associates : 



William L. Bray, Associate Professor of Bot- 

 any, in charge of School of Botany, University of 

 Texas; Carlton Clarence Curtis, Tutor in Botany, 

 Columbia University; Frank S. Earle, Assistant 

 Curator, New York Botanical Garden; Edward 

 Charles Jeffrey, Assistant Professor of General 

 Morphology, Harvard University; Thomas Mac- 

 bride, Professor of Botany, State University of 

 Iowa, Professor of Pharmacognosy in the College 

 of Pharmacy U. of I., and Member of Staff of the 

 State Geological 'Survey; Peter Henry Rolfs, 

 Pathologist, Bureau of Plant Industry, in charge 

 of Tropical Laboratory, Miami, Florida ; Augustus 

 D. Selby, Professor of Botany, Wooster, Ohio; 

 Frank Lincoln Stevens, Professor of Biology, Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Raleigh, 

 N. C. 



The Society now includes 36 members, 

 21 associates and 1 patron. 

 -- The report of the Treasurer showed a 

 balance of $2,628.24 of cash on hand, the 

 receipts during the year amounting to about 

 $500, in consequence of which the declared 

 policy of the Society relative to re- 

 search work was put in the form of resolu- 

 tions by which grants may be made in aid 

 of research (see below). 



A committee consisting of Messrs Under- 

 wood, Coulter and Galloway, upon the rela- 

 tions of the Botanical Society of America to 

 other botanical organizations, was ap- 

 pointed, Professor Underwood being chair- 

 man. 



The following papers were presented dur- 

 ing the sessions devoted to scientific sub- 

 jects : 



Address by Past President, B. D. Halsted, 

 ' Two Centuries of American Botany.' (Not de- 

 livered, owing to illness of Past President.) 



' The Relations of the Botanical Associations of 

 the Country ' : J. M. Coulter. 



' Suggestions for Ecological Cartography ' : H. 

 C. COWLES. 



' Fossil Ferns from the Laramie Group of Flor- 

 ence, Colorado ' : Arthur Hollick. 



' The Genus Gymnogramma , and its Treatment 

 by English Botanists ' : L. M. Underwood. 



' Studies on Reproduction by Gemmte of the 

 Prothallus of Ferns ' : Elizabeth G. Britton. 



' Tea Fermentation ' : R. H. True. 



' Some Disorganization Products of Plant 

 Cells ' : A. F. Woods. 



' Studies in Gyperus and Other Cyperacese ' : N. 

 L. Britton. 



' A Disease of Catalpa speciosa ' : H. voN 



SCHRENK. 



'The Geasters of the United States' (by invi- 

 tation) : Miss V. S. White. 



' The Dimensional Relations of Compound 

 Leaves' (by invitation) : Charles Zeleny. 



' Parthenogenesis in Seed Plants ' : J. M. 

 Coulter. 



' The Cytology of the Secreting Epithelium of 

 Zea Mais ' (by invitation) : John C. Toeret. 



' North American Species of Leptochloa ' : A. S. 

 Hitchcock. 



' The Genus Oanoderma in North America ' 

 (by invitation) : W. A. Murrill. 



' A Study of Astragalus ' : P. A. Rydberg. 



' The Stimulus to Heterophylly in Proserpinaca 

 palustris' (by invitation) : W. B. McCallum. 



' The Genus Sematophyllum (Raphidostegium)' : 

 Elizabeth G. Britton. 



'Maturation Divisions in the Pollen Cells of' 

 Hybrid Cottons' (by invitation) : W. A. Cannon. 



' The Embryology of the Cueurbitaceae ' (by in- 

 vitation) : J. E. KiRKWOOD. 



' Anatomy and Physiology of Baocharis genistel- 

 loides' (by invitation) : Miss E. M. Kupfer. 



' Dimorphic Structure of the Phyllodes of 

 Oxypolis fiUformis' (by invitation) : Miss R. J. 

 Rennert. 



' Recent Investigation in the Pleistocene Flora 

 of Maryland' (carried out under the auspices of 

 the Maryland Geological Survey, and presented by 

 permission of the State Geologist) (illustrated) : 

 Arthur Hollick. 



' A Comparative Study of the Sand Dunes of 

 the Ocean and Lake Shore' (illustrated) : H. C. 



COWLES. 



