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advance of botanical thought generally but especially by the 

 stimulus of the phytogeographic point of view which seeks not 

 merely to correlate the facts of genetic relation with geographic 

 distribution, but to project the whole group history against the 

 background of its "geographic experience," as one may say. 

 Thus Professor Trelease's discussion of geographic distributions 

 and the light they throw upon the taxonomic status as he con- 

 ceives it is of keen interest and one could only wish that he had 

 already had time to push the matter farther not merely in the 

 geographic-genetic analysis of Phoradendron but of all the New 

 World Loranthaceae. For the matter of that, do not present 

 circumstances indicate that American botanists must extend 

 their geographic and taxonomic studies to world regions and 

 groups, and why therefore should we not anticipate ultimately a 

 monograph entitled " Trelease on the Loranthaceae^'? 



W. L. Bray 

 NEWS ITEMS 



At the annual meeting of the club held on January 9, the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected for the new year. President, H. M. 

 Richards; Vice-Presidents, J. H. Barnhart and C. S. Gager, Secre- 

 tary-Treasurer, B. O. Dodge; Editor, A. W. Evans; Associate 

 Editors, Jean Broadhurst, J. A. Harris, M. A. Howe, M. Levine, 

 A. B. Stout, W. Marquette, and N. Taylor. The delegate to 

 the council of the New York Academy of Sciences is M. A. Howe. 



At the convocation week meeting of the Ecological Society of 

 America, Ellsworth Huntington was elected president, J. W. 

 Harshberger, vice-president and Forrest Shreve was reelected 

 secretary-treasurer. 



Dr. F. C. Newcombe was elected president and editor-in-chief, 

 Dr. E. W. Ohve vice-president, and Dr. E. W. Sinnott treasurer, 

 of the Botanical Society of America at its recent meeting . 



