42 



Interest 



$150.00 



Bibliographer 



Advertisements 



100.00 



Sundries 



Miscellaneous sales 



100.00 





1 175-00 



125.00 



I3750.00 $3650-00 



Bulletin (from sur- 

 plus) 600.00 



$4250.00 

 The report of the Budget Committee was adopted by the vote 

 of the Club. 



In a brief talk which followed, entitled "The present status of 

 the American chestnut," the Secretary sketched the history of 

 the chestnut blight since its first discovery in the N. Y. Zoological 

 Garden by Mr. H. W. Merkel in 1904. At the present time the 

 disease is spreading in the southern limits of the range of the 

 chestnut and may probably be found in any county where chest- 

 nut grows. Experiments carried on by the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden in collaboration with the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture have 

 shown that the root tissues are much more resistant than the 

 trunk or stem tissues, hence the fact that in many places coppice 

 or basal shoots are springing from trees apparently killed by the 

 blight. The fact that in some cases these shoots are now bearing 

 nuts is of great significance and importance, since it will enable 

 the chestnut to maintain itself and postpone still further into 

 the future its possible extinction as a species. 



Arthur H. Graves, 



Secretary. 



NEWS NOTES 



Fourth International Botanical Congress. Investigators and 

 teachers of the plant sciences, representing all aspects of botany, 

 are invited to attend the International Congress of Plant Sciences 

 to be held in Ithaca, August 16-23, 1926. The congress will be 

 divided into about twelve sections, each with its own program. 

 There will be round table or informal discussions, exhibitions and 

 excursions and inspection trips. General communications con- 

 cerning the congress should be addressed to Dr. B. M. Duggar, 

 Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 



