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was held at the University of Vermont, Burlington, January 24 

 and 25. Fully fifty botanists were in attendance, and the mem- 

 bership of the club was increased by the addition of fifteen 

 names. Twenty-three papers covering a wide range of taxo- 

 nomic, morphological, physiological, and economic subjects were 

 presented. Papers by Messrs. A. L. Andrews, A. J. Grout, and 

 T. E. Hazen added thirteen species of mosses and seven species 

 of algae to the known flora of the state. Interesting results in 

 the cultivation of native flowering plants and ferns were discussed 

 by Miss Smith and Mrs. Horton, and the latter reported finding 

 Dryoptcris simulata Dav. at Brattleboro — the first record for Ver- 

 mont. The persistent efforts of Mrs. Flynn, of Burlington, have 

 added materially to the local flora, and, chiefly through the 

 activity of President Brainerd, W. W. Eggleston and W. H. 

 Blanchard, sixty-four species new to the state have been reported 

 since the publication of the revised Flora a little more than a 

 year ago. President Brainerd suggested as the most important 

 problems for the next season the detailed field study of the crit- 

 ical genera, Crataegus, Riibus and Viola. Progress on the maple 

 sap problems, and the subjects of forestry and nature study, and 

 bacterial diseases of plants were treated in several papers. In 

 response to the annual roll call many interesting notes were. given. 

 The address by Professor B. L. Robinson, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, on " Some Recent Advances in the Classification of the 

 Flowering Plants" was listened to with the greatest interest. 

 Following an introduction outlining the history of taxonomic 

 systems, a lucid exposition of the Eichlerian principles as devel- 

 oped by Engler and Prantl was given, and a brief comment on 

 the new system of van Tieghem was added. The officers of the 

 Club were reelected as follows : President Ezra Brainerd, of 

 Middlebury College, president ; Mr. C. G. Pringle, vice-president ; 

 Professor L. R. Jones, secretary. The field meeting' of the club 

 next summer will probably take the form of an excursion to the 

 islands and shores of Lake Champlain. — [T. E. H.] 



