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can Sordariaceae, has been printed. The principle adopted with 

 the issue of Vol. 7 to make the memoirs pay for their own publi- 

 cation has been eminently successful. An increased sale of recent 

 volumes and of sets was reported. The following forthcoming 

 publications were announced : in Vol. 8, the conclusion of Profes- 

 sor Lloyd's studies on the embryology of the Rubiaceae ; by Dr. 

 A. W. Evans, "A Monograph of the Lcjeuneae of the United States 

 and Canada"; by Mrs. E. G. Britton and Miss Alexandrina 

 Taylor, "The Life History of Vittaria lineata" ; in Vol. II, 

 "The Ulotrichaceae and Chaetoplwraccae of the United States," 

 by Dr. T. E. Hazen ; Vol. 12, the second part of Professor Bur- 

 gess' " Aster Studies." 



Upon the acceptance of this report, the thanks of the Club 

 were voted to the editor, Dr. Underwood, upon motion of Dr. 

 Chamberlain, who expressed his profound feeling of indebtedness 

 to the editorial board, and especially to the editor-in-chief, and 

 his appreciation of the great labor involved, done without pecuni- 

 ary compensation. 



In response to call for reports on library and herbarium, Dr. 

 Underwood remarked that v/e receive a large number of periodi- 

 cals in exchange, all of which go to the library of the Botanical 

 Garden, and are accessible to members ; and Dr. Small remarked 

 that the herbarium is now installed in its separate cases at the 

 Botanical Garden, there to form the nucleus of a local flora of 

 the 1 00-mile limit. 



Dr. Britton reported as follows, regarding the local flora : Mr. 

 Bicknell is continuing his observations on the flora of the region 

 north of the Harlem and south of Yonkers. It is extremely de- 

 sirable that some one take up the preparation of a diagnostic list 

 of the metropolitan flora. Material for it exists already at the 

 Botanical Garden, and in the collections of the Brooklyn Insti- 

 tute, the Staten Island Natural History Society, and the Geolog- 

 ical Survey of New Jersey. It would be a work of great popu- 

 lar utility. 



Regarding work on the cryptogamic flora, Professor Under- 

 wood reported that the immediate vicinity of New York had re- 

 cently furnished the chief material for Dr. Griffiths , work on the 



