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The finance committee made a verbal report. 



The editor of Torkkva made a verbal report which was accepted. 



The committee on local flora made a verbal repgrt outlininj^ 

 the work done during the year and calling special attention to the 

 need of much more active and critical work on the local flower- 

 ing [jlant.s, and especially on the cryptogams, many groups of the 

 latter having been almost entirely neglected. 



The next order of business was the election of officers. By a 

 unanimous vote the secretary was instructed to cast the ballot 

 of the Club for the reelection of all the present officers, which 

 was done and their election was declared. 



On motion, the editor-in-chief and two other members of the 

 editorial board to be selected by him were appointed a special 

 committee to endeavor to place the publications of the Club in 

 various libraries of public institutions where they are not now to 

 be found. 



A communication was read from the Outdoor Art League of 

 California in regard to legislation now pending in Congress for 

 the preservation of the Calaveras Grove of Big Trees, asking the 

 endorsement of the Club for this measure. On motion the fol- 

 lowing resolution was adopted : 



Resolved : That the Torrey Botanical Club heartily endorses 

 the action of the Outdoor Art League of California in trying to 

 secure legislation for the preservation of the Calaveras Grove of 

 Big Trees, and that it hereby urges the favorable consideration 

 of such legislation by Congress. 



There being no further business, adjournment followed. 



F. S. Kakle, 

 Recording Secretary. 



NEWS ITEMS 



The Botanical Gazette announces, with a regret which must be 

 generally felt, that the Journal of Apf>iied Microscof^y and Labora- 

 tory Methods will cease publication with the issue for Decem- 

 ber, 1903. 



Mr. Otto 1^. Jennings, of the Ohio State University, has been 

 appointed custodian of the botanical collections at the Carnegie 



