June 10, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



bers. The total constituency of the society 

 now numbers 58, and its accrued funds amount 

 to nearly three thousand dollars, a large part 

 of which is treated as permanent endowment, 

 the income only being used. Recently the 

 policy has been adopted of making grants 

 from current funds in aid of investigations 

 by members and associates. Thus far the 

 following awards have been made: 



To Dr. Arthur HoUick, for the study of the 

 fossil flora of the Atlantic coastal plain, $200. 



To Dr. D. S. Johnson, for the study of the seeds 

 and endosperm of the Piperaceae and Chlorantha- 

 ceae, $200. 



To Dr. J. C. Arthur for investigations on plant 

 rusts, $90. 



To Dr. C. J. Chamberlain, for the study of the 

 spermatogenesis, oogenesis and fertilization of 

 Dioon and Ceratogamia, $150. 



To Professor F. E. Lloyd, for the study of cer- 

 tain types of desert vegetation to be carried on 

 at the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Car- 

 negie Institution, $150. 



To Dr. J. C. Arthur, for securing drawings of 

 rusts, $50. 



In order to promote unity of botanical in- 

 terests a committee consisting of B. T. Gallo- 

 way (chairman), C. E. Barnes and C. E. 

 Bessey was appointed at the St. Louis meet- 

 ing and requested to prepare a plan for co- 

 operation with other botanical organizations, 

 for consideration at the eleventh annual meet- 

 ing. 



The increasing demand upon the time al- 

 lowed by the society for the presentation of 

 scientific papers has made necessary the action 

 of the council in accepting only papers from 

 members, associates and persons specially in- 

 vited to contribute by the council. The pro- 

 grams, almost without exception, are now 

 made up from papers, the titles of which are 

 sent to the secretary in advance of the meet- 

 ings. 



Among those who have recently presented 

 papers before the society by special invitation 

 are Professor K. Goebel, of Munich, Ger- 

 many; Professor H. de Vries of Amsterdam, 

 Holland; Professor T. H. Morgan, of Bryn 

 Mawr, and Mr. Prances Darwin, of Cam- 

 bridge, England. 



The reprinted addresses of the past presi- 



dents are the only scientific publications is- 

 sued by the society and may be taken as a 

 fair index of the maturer investigations that 

 have been prosecuted in America. The list 

 includes the following titles : 



Professor William Teelease: 'Botanical Op- 

 portunity.' 



Professor Charles E. Bessey : ' The Phy- 

 logeny and Taxonomy of Angiosperms.' 



Professor John M. Coulter : ' Origin of Gym- 

 nosperms and the Seed Habit.' 



Pkofessoe L. M. Underwood : ' The Last 

 Quarter; The Reminiscence and an Outlook.' 



Professor B. L. Robinson : ' The Problems and 

 Possibilities of Systematic Botany.' 



Professor J. C. Arthur : ' Problems in the 

 Study of Plant-rusts.' 



Dr. B. T. Galloway: 'What the Twentieth 

 Century Demands of Botany.' 



At the tenth annual meeting recently held 

 in St. Louis the following associates were 

 elected members : 



Frederick Edward Clements, University of Ne- 

 ' braska. 



Henry Chandler Cowles, University of Chicago. 

 William Ashbrook Kellerman, The Ohio State 

 University. 



Also the following associates were elected: 



William Austin Cannon, Desert Botanical Labo- 

 ratory, Tucson, Arizona. 



Karl McKay Wiegand, Cornell University. 



The officers for 1904 are: 



President — Frederick Vernon Coville, U. S. 

 Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Vice-President — Charles Edwin Bessey, The 

 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. 



Treasurer — Arthur Hollick, New York Botan- 

 ical Garden, New York City. 



Secretary — Daniel Trembly MacDougal, New 

 York Botanical Garden, New York City. 



Cmmcilors — Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Gray 

 Herbarium, Harvard University, Cambridge, 

 Mass., and John Merle Coulter, University of 

 Chicago, Chicago, HI. 



The above officers, with Past President 

 Charles Eeid Barnes, constitute the council 

 of the society. 



D. T. MacDougal, 

 Secretary. 



