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Dr. P. A. Rydberg gave a detailed report of his botanizing 

 trip in Kansas and Minnesota. He collected several new species 

 from Kansas, including a new species of Prunus, a sand plum, 

 with good edible fruit, and found some interesting Canadian 

 plants in North Eastern Minnesota, on the Pigeon River. (A 

 complete account of this trip will be published in the Journal 

 of The New York Botanical Garden.) 



Dr. Fred J. Seaver gave a brief account of the summer meet- 

 ing of the Botanical Society of America held at Laramie, Wyom- 

 ing, July 31-August 4, 1929, which he attended in company 

 with Mr. Paul F. Shope and T. D. A. Cockerell of the Univer- 

 sity of Colorado. Arriving in Laramie at noon, July 31, the 

 afternoon was spent in meeting incoming botanists and inspect- 

 ing the buildings and grounds of the University. In the evening 

 a banquet was held in the University dining hall and was well 

 attended by visiting and local botanists. Professor Aven Nel- 

 son presided and T. D. A. Cockerell was the chief speaker of the 

 evening. 



On the next morning, after breakfast, cars were assembled 

 and the entire delegation started for the University Camp, lo- 

 cated in the Medicine Bow Mountains at an elevation of 9,600 

 feet and a distance of 40 miles from the University. Arriving 

 there about noon an assembly was called immediately after 

 luncheon at which plans for the meeting were discussed. Sev- 

 eral sections had been arranged for but these simmered down to 

 two. The mycologists and the pathologists combining under 

 the leadership of Professor J. C. Oilman of Iowa and the genet- 

 icists and ecologists united with the taxonomic botanists under 

 Dr. J. M. Greenman of the Missouri Botanic Garden. It was 

 arranged to spend all the daylight time in the field, restricting 

 meetings, which were entirely informal, to the evening. Brief 

 talks were given by Professor Aven Nelson and a number of 

 the visiting delegates. 



The mycologists devoted considerable time to the collection 

 of rusts and smuts and were very fortunate in having with them 

 Professor A. O. Garrett of Salt Lake City, Utah, who is well 

 known as a rust collector. Specimens were collected in quantity 

 and will be arraisiged in a number of sets, one of which will be 

 sent to each of tlie institutions represented on the trip. 



On several occasions all the botanists combined and made 



