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Order Calycinze (3 families). 
Order Glumaceze (5 families). 
Order Hydrales (1 family). 
Order Epigynie (7 families). 
Order Microspermze (2 families). 
Sub-class DicoryLEDONES. 
Order Thalamiflore. 
Sub-order Ranales (12 families). 
Sub-order Parietales (12 families). 
Sub-order Polygalales (4 families). 
Sub-order Caryophyllales (13 families). 
Sub-order Geraniales (11 families). 
Sub-order Guttiferales (6 families). 
Sub-order Malyales (11 families). 
Order Heteromere. 
Sub-order Primulales (4 families). 
Sub-order Ericales (7 families). 
Sub-order Ebenales (4 families). 
Order Bicarpellatze. 
Sub-order Polemoniales (5 families). 
Sub-order Gentianales (6 families). 
Sub-order Personales (8 families) . 
Sub-order Lamiales (4 families). 
Order Calycifloree. 
Sub-order Rosales (12 families). 
Sub-order Myrtales (9 families). 
Sub-order Passiflorales (6 families). 
Sub-order Celastrales (13 families). 
Sub-order Sapindales (8 families). 
Sub-order Umbellales (3 families). 
Order Inferze. 
Sub-order Rubiales (2 families). 
Sub-order Campanales (3 families). 
Sub-order Asterales (4 families). 
CHARLES H. Bussry. 
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. 
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 
THE most successful meeting which this 
young but flourishing society has yet held 
has just closed at Toronto. Although only 
three years old, both the attendance at the 
meeting and the great variety and strength 
of the papers read would be worthy of a 
much older organization. Every facility 
was afforded to the Society, through the 
courtesy of the Local Committee of Ar- 
rangements for the meeting of the British 
Association. The sessions, presided over 
by Dr. John M. Coulter, were held in the 
lecture hall of the handsome Biological 
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Building in which this department of the 
University of Toronto is quartered. Be- 
sides the members, there were present a 
considerable number of British, Canadian 
and United States botanists. Foreign bot- 
anists had been invited by the Council to 
sit as associate members of the Society for 
this meeting. Among those present were 
Professor H. Marshall Ward, Professor F. 
O. Bower, Mr. Harold Wager, Mr. J. Bret- 
land Farmer and Mr. J. Reynolds Green. 
The officers of the Society are elected by 
ballots distributed by the Secretary by mail, 
and returned to him by the members. The 
Council canvassed the vote for officers and 
announced at the first meeting of the So- 
ciety that the following had been elected 
for the year 1898: President, N. L. Brit- 
ton, of New York; Vice-President, J. C. 
Arthur, of Lafayette, Ind.; Secretary, C. R. 
Barnes, of Madison, Wis.; Treasurer, Ar- 
thur Hollick, of New York; Councillors, 
B. L. Robinson, of Cambridge, Mass., and 
F. V. Coville, of Washington. 
A very cordial invitation was sent by the 
Director and Trustees of the Missouri Bo- 
tanical Garden urging the Society to hold a 
meeting in the spring of 1898 at the Gar- 
den, as their guests. The Society was 
obliged reluctantly to decline this invita- 
tion, inasmuch as it desires to cooperate 
with the A. A. A. S. at its semi-centennial 
next August in Boston, and it was not felt 
expedient to hold two meetings so close to- 
gether. 
The proposal to amend the constitution 
so as to reduce the dues met with no favor. 
It was unanimously laid upon the table, as 
was also the proposition to establish one or 
more medals to be awarded for valuable re- 
search. The discussion over the last propo- 
sition brought out the fact that the Society 
prefers to expend such funds as it receives 
for the promotion of research rather than 
for its reward. 
Nine new members were elected. To 
