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aggregating about $300 are offered. The Council of the Society 

 announces that it has completed arrangements for an Interna- 

 tional Conference on Planting Breeding and Hybridization to be 

 held in New York, September 30 to October 2, 1902. 



"The Wild Flower Preservation Society of America" has re- 

 cently been organized with the following officers : President, Mr. 

 Frederick V. Coville, United States Department of Agriculture ; 

 vice-president, Dr. D. T. MacDougal, New York Botanical Gar- 

 den ; secretary, Mr. Charles Louis Pollard, United States National 

 Museum; treasurer, Mrs. Carolyn W. Harris, 125 St. Marks Ave- 

 nue, Brooklyn, New York ; managers, Dr. L. H. Bailey, Cor- 

 nell University ; Mrs. N. L. Britton, New York Botanical Garden ; 

 Miss Alice Eastwood, California Academy of Sciences ; Mr. E. L. 

 Morris, Washington, D. C. ; Mr. C. D. Beadle, Biltmore Her- 

 barium ; Mr. Joseph Crawford, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Dr. C. F. 

 Millspaugh, Field Columbian Museum ; Mr. A. M. Read, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; Dr. Charles E. Bessey, University of Nebraska ; 

 Mr. Walter Deane, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Dr. F. H. 

 Knowlton, United States Geological Survey ; Dr. William Tre- 

 lease, Missouri Botanical Garden. 



The annual dues are one dollar and each member is entitled 

 to receive The Plant World, the official organ of the society, 

 without additional charge. Under the auspices of the society a 

 public lecture, illustrated by Van Brunt lantern slides, on " Some 

 Wild Flowers in Need of Preservation " was delivered by Dr. N. 

 L. Britton, May 22, before an audience of seven hundred, in the 

 lecture hall of the U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. William J. Gies, adjunct professor of physiological chem- 

 istry in Columbia University, has been appointed consulting 

 chemist of the New York Botanical Garden. 



