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Secretary : C. Stuart Gager. 



Ireasicrer : William Mansfield. 



Editor: Marshall Avery Howe. 



Corresponding secretary : On motion the election of a corre- 

 sponding secretary was indefinitely postponed. 



Associate editors: John Hendley Barnhart, Jean Broadhurst, 

 Philip Dowell, Alexander William Evans, Tracy Elliot Hazen, 

 William Alphonso Murrill, Charles Louis Pollard, and Herbert 

 Maule Richards. 



The chairman appointed Dr. Small and Dr. Gager as auditing 

 committee. 



After an informal discussion of the personnel of the commit- 

 tees to be appointed for the ensuing year, the club, on motion, 

 adjourned at ten o'clock. 



C. Stuart Gager, 



Secretary. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. Raymond H. Pond, who sailed for Europe early in Novem- 

 ber, is studying in the laboratory of Professor Ludwig Jost in 

 Bonn. 



Mr. A. P. Morgan, well known as a collector and student of 

 the fungi, died at his home in Preston, Ohio, on October 19, 

 1907. 



Dr. William A. Murrill, for the past two years first assistant 

 of the staff of the New York Botanical Garden, has been ad- 

 vanced to the rank of assistant director of that institution. 



Professor Edward S. Burgess, vice-president of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club, has been acting president of the Normal College 

 of the City of New York since the death of Acting-President 

 Gillet. 



Dr. Hermann Graf zu Solms-Laubach, editor of the BotaniscJie 

 Zeitung, has retired from the professorship of botany at the Uni- 

 versity of Strassburg. He will be succeeded by Dr. Ludwig 

 Jost of the Royal Agricultural Academy at Bonn. 



Dr. W. A. Kellerman, professor of botany in the Ohio State 

 University, is now on his fourth winter expedition to Guatemala, 



