on the Iiillsides. Other conspicuous plants are Aragailus an liens, 

 A. )iigrcsccns, Chauiaccistiis procumbciis, Diapensin Lapponica, 

 Lloydia serotina, Campanula lasiocarpa, and various dwarf arctic 

 willows. Vaccifiiuin nliginosnm and V. Vitis-ldaca arc abundant 

 and their fruits are of great economic importance to the natives. 

 The paper brought out an interesting discussion lasting till the 

 hour for adjournment. 



F. S. Eakle. 

 Secretary. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Professor L. M. Underwood has been elected chairman of the 

 Section of Biology of the New York Academy of Sciences. 



Professor J. C. Arthur, of Purdue Univcrsit)', Lafayette, In- 

 diana, is spending a month at the New York Botanical Garden, 

 engaged in some special mycological researches. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal, director of the laboratories of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, left New York on January 13 to visit 

 the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution at 

 Tucson, Arizona. He plans also to visit Lower California and 

 will probably be absent from the Garden for about six weeks. 



Dr. Burton E. Livingston, instructor in plant physiology in the 

 University of Chicago, and Miss Winifred J, Robinson, instructor 

 in botany in Vassar College, who have been devoting, several 

 months to studies in the laboratories of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, returned to their respective institutions about the first of 

 January. 



The seventh meeting of the Society for Plant Morphology and 

 Physiology was held at the University of Penns\lvania, Phila- 

 delphia, December 29-31, 1903. Fifteen papers were presented 

 and discussed. No presidential address was given on account of 

 the absence of the president. Professor Roland Thaxter. The 

 following officers were elected for the ensuing year : president, 

 Dr. George T. Moore ; vice-president. Professor Clara E. Cum- 

 mings ; secretary-treasurer, Professor W. F. Ganong. A com- 

 mittee of three was appointed to confer with committees from 



