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Dr. Benedict it was voted that the meeting appoint a committee 

 to consider what further steps should be made toward conser- 

 vation with special reference to drafting a law for the state of 

 New York. Mrs. Albert Michelson, of the Illinois chapter of 

 the W. F. P. S., described work that was going on in Illinois along 

 the line of conservation. Dr. Gager felt that the object of the 

 committee should be to enter into communication with all of 

 the organizations of this state to consider what further steps 

 should be made toward conservation of American wild flowers. 

 Mrs. William E. Jones of Philadelphia, from the Pennsylvania 

 branch of the W. F. P. S., stated that she felt that her society 

 would gladly cooperate. Dr. Gager recommended that a suit- 

 able committee be elected quickly. Mrs. Britton felt that the 

 State Museum at Albany should be represented in the legislation. 

 Mr. Bourn advocated a small committee of four members. 

 Thus only would the work go through quickly. Mr. P. L. 

 Ricker, of the Washington branch of the W. F. P. S., thought 

 that the societies of other states should appoint similar com- 

 mittees for their states to incorporate similar laws. Mrs. 

 Britton suggested the following persons for the proposed com- 

 mittee: Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, from the New York Bird and Tree Club; Dr. M. A. 

 Howe, of the New York Botanical Garden, from the Torrey 

 Botanical Club; Dr. R. C. Benedict, of the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden, from the Fern Society; Dr. Homer D. House, of the 

 State Museum, from the W. F. P. S. Dr. Benedict suggested 

 that there be invited into this committee a representative of 

 each of the two New York Gardens and also a lawyer. Mr. 

 Bourn spoke in favor of this suggestion. A motion to this 

 effect was made and carried. The motion of Dr. Howe that Mr. 

 Bourn be added to this committee as legal representative was 

 carried. Mrs. Britton suggested that a general law, intelligible 

 to everyone and applicable to special plants, was called for. 

 Extemporaneous meetings of each of the societies represented 

 were then held consecutively, and the delegates suggested by 

 Mrs. Britton were thus duly elected. It was suggested that 

 this committee should take the necessary steps to formulate a 

 conservation law, and should send copies of this law to secre- 

 taries of all interested societies. 



A. H. Graves and Marshall A. Howe, 



Secretaries. 



