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The usual business was dispensed with and Professor A. H, 

 Cockayne, of the Agricultural Department of New Zealand, gave 

 an illustrated lecture on "Botanical Features of the Flora of New 

 Zealand." A general discussion followed the lecture, after 

 which the meeting was adjourned. 



B. O. Dodge, 



Secretary 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. B. O. Dodge for the last nine years the Club's Secretary 

 and Treasurer, has resigned his position from the department of 

 botany at Columbia University and gone to the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry at Washington. Dr. Francis W. Pennell of the New 

 York Botanical Garden has been elected Secretary-Treasurer of 

 the Club. 



Dr. Carl Skottsberg the director of the new botanical garden 

 at Goteborg, Sweden, who lectured before the Club in the 

 autumn of 1918, en route from Chili to Goteborg, writes that, 

 like our own, the winter just past was of exceptional severity. 

 The garden is to have special geographical sections of which that 

 devoted to Eastern Asia will be planted in 1920 and the North 

 American section in 1921. 



Dr. Roland M. Harper has recently completed some studies 

 on the resources of southern Alabama, including considerable 

 work on the vegetation. He has gone to central Florida, where 

 he will carry on similar work, which was started in 191 5. His 

 address will be Geological Department, Tallahassee, Florida. 



