' Your committee appointed to consider the relief of the busi- 

 ness pressure on the secretary, treasurer and editor owing to the 

 increase in the business of the Club would recommend, (i) That 

 the treasurer as the financial head of the Club should be respon- 

 sible for all the financial administration of the Club, including the 

 care of the subscription list and the sale of all the publications ; 

 (2) That he should prepare and keep the official list of members, 

 thus relieving the secretary and editor of all responsibility in this 

 line, and (3) That the Club should allow him an amount not ex- 

 ceeding one hundred and fifty dollars per annum to be used for 

 clerical work connected with the keeping of the books of the 

 Club and the sale of the publications. 



This will necessitate the centralization of the Club's business 

 at a single center." 



Respectfully submitted, 



L. M. Underwood, 

 D. T. MacDougal, 

 F. E. Lloyd, 



Committee. 



The above report was adopted, on motion of Dr. Rusby, 

 seconded by Dr. Britton. 



The committee on reporting proceedings recommended that 

 the proceedings be published in Torreya instead of the Bulletin, 

 beginning with January, 1902. 



The secretary, Professor Burgess, presented and exhibited the 

 bound volume of minutes for 1901, and reported 15 meetings 

 held with an attendance varying from 10 to 30, the average 20; 

 28 active members elected, 1 2 resigned ; total present member- 

 ship 383, including 3 honorary, 142 corresponding, 238 active. 



The editor, Professor Underwood, reported issue of the 

 largest volume of the Bulletin in its history, 706 pages and 

 48 plates. The monthly index of recent literature has been re- 

 printed as usual in card form and includes 983 titles for 1901, an 

 increase of 127. Vol. 10 of the Memoirs, including the first part 

 of Professor Burgess' " Aster Studies " is nearly through the press. 

 No. 1 of Vol. 11, Dr. Griffiths' memoir on the North Ameri- 



