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S. Gager ; treasurer, C. C. Curtis : editor, J. H. Barnhart ; as- 

 sociate editors, Philip Dowell, A. W. Evans, T. E. Hazen, M. A. 

 Howe, W. A. Murrill, H. M. Richards, A. M. Vail. 



A proposed constitutional amendment was submitted by Dr. 

 Barnhart, as follows : 



" Originally, the Torrey Botanical Club had a single editor. 

 In the revised constitution, adopted January ii, 1882, an asso- 

 ate editor was added to the list of officers. By an amendment 

 adopted December 14, 1886, the constitution was altered to read 

 'associate editors, not to exceed five in number,' and by a fur- 

 ther amendment (adopted January 26, 1898) the word five was 

 changed to ' seven.' The constitution in its present form, there- 

 fore, reads : ' associate editors, not to exceed seven in number.' " 



The proposition hereby submitted is, that Section III of the 

 constitution be amended by the substitution of the word " eight" 

 for the word "seven," so as to read, "associate editors, not to 

 exceed eight in number." 



Upon motion, the meeting then adjourned. 



John Hexdley Barnhart, 



Secretary pro fern. 



NEWS ITEMS 



The University of Michigan has come into the possession of a 

 tract of land of about thirty acres, which, it is expected, will be 

 developed as a botanical garden. 



Members of the Torrey Botanical Club will be pleased to learn 

 of the promotion of their fellow-member, Dr. Alexander W. 

 Evans, to the Eaton professorship of botany in the Sheffield Sci- 

 entific School of Yale University. 



Miss Clara Eaton Cummings. Hunnewell professor of cryp- 

 togamic botany in Wellesley College, died in Concord, N. H., on 

 December 28. Miss Cummings was well known to the botan- 

 ical world through her systematic studies of the Hchens. 



We learn from Science that Professor William Trelease, director 

 of the Missouri Botanical Garden, left St. Louis on January 24 

 for an expedition to the West Indies, which is expected to last 

 about two months. 



