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high a grade as would be required in a master's thesis. Some of 

 the illustrations that are apparently redrawn from this and that 

 author are frequently a good way "after " the originals. 



The space devoted to certain important subjects like embryol- 

 ogy is too meager, at least on its physiological side, and the whole 

 chapter on physiology, besides being out of all proportion to the 

 size of the work in its brevity, in some places becomes a mere cat- 

 alogue of important topics with striking bold-face headlines and 

 a few words of explanatory matter. 



While the work has many good features that will readily com- 

 mend themselves, it can by no means be taken to represent the 

 standard of American botany of the present day. The subject of 

 botany has become too broad to lie within the grasp of one man, 

 and the ideal university text-book — still a dream of the future — 

 must be the work of many specialists with the whole brought into 

 coordination by one master mind whose botanical perspective is 

 so clear-cut that the real relation of parts will form a consistent 

 and logical whole. Even the phlegmatic Germans have reached 

 this point and have set an example of this sort. It remains for 

 Americans in the future to adopt and perfect the plan. 



Lucien M. Underwood. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 Tuesday, May 13, 1902 



The meeting of May 13 was held at 8 p. m., at the College of 

 Pharmacy ; 18 persons present ; Dr. H. H. Rusby in the chair. 



The secretary reported a request from the Brooklyn Institute 

 to print the Torrey Club's weekly program of excursions on the 

 weekly program-ticket of the Institute. The Club voted its en- 

 dorsement of this arrangement. 



The treasurer asked for the appointment of a committee to 

 report on the price of the Memoirs to members of the Club. As a 

 committee the chair appointed the board of editors and the 

 treasurer. 



Dr. Underwood and others discussed the proposed Fourth of 

 July excursion to the lakes near Jamesville, N. Y. With this it 



