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5- That the presentation of papers be restricted to members of 

 the Club, and that provision be made for their pubhcation as an 

 anniversary volume of the Memoirs. We find after a study of 

 the present membership of the Club that not less than 125 

 members might be able to communicate either formal papers, 

 observations or reminiscences, and that perhaps half that number 

 of members might be expected to do so. Assuming that 60 

 documents of one kind or another might be brought out, and 

 that we could expect to publish a volume of about 480 pages, an 

 average of eight pages per communication would be available. 

 It would therefore be desirable to have only a few papers which 

 would require more than, say, 16 pages of type. 



6. As to the presentation of papers, assuming three sessions 

 of two hours each, there will be 6 hours, or 360 minutes, which 

 would give an average of 6 minutes per paper. It would there- 

 fore be desirable to have but few papers which would require 

 more than 10 minutes for presentation. It is probable, however, 

 that a considerable number of papers would be sent in by 

 members unable to be present, as the membership of the Club is 

 very widely distributed, and many of these might be read by title. 



7. The cooperation of the department of botany of Columbia 

 University, of the New York Botanical Garden and of the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden has been assured. 



Respectfully submitted, 



N. L. Britton, 

 R. L. Harper, 

 M. A. Howe, 



Committee 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. Caroline A. Black, recently associate professor of botany 

 in the New Hampshire College, has accepted the position of 

 associate professor in the department of biology in the Con- 

 necticut College for Women at New London, where she will have 

 charge of the botanical work in succession to Dr. Arthur H. 

 Graves, who has resigned. 



The death, on July 5, of M. Paul Hariot, for many years in 



