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tributions, to enable us to arrange for special lectures on popular 

 subjects in botany, to be given on the second Tuesday evening 

 of each month at the American Museum of Natural History and 

 that the speakers be suitably recompensed for their services." 

 Upon motion this recommendation was approved. 



It was voted that a committee be appointed by the President 

 to read over the minutes and consider the subject of the revision 

 of the constitution and by-laws. 



Election of officers for the year 1910 resulted as follows : 



President, H. H. Rusby ; vice-presidents, Edward S. Burgess 

 and John Hendley Barnhart ; recording secretary, Percy Wil- 

 son ; editor, Marshall Avery Howe ; treasurer, William Mans- 

 field ; associate editors: John Hendley Barnhart, Jean Broad- 

 hurst, Philip Dowell, Alexander W. Evans, Tracy Elliot Hazen, 

 William Alphonso Murrill, Charles Louis Pollard, and Herbert 

 M. Richards. 



Mr. Walter C. Cameron and Mr. Bernard O. Dodge were 

 nominated for membership. 



Adjourned. Percy Wilson, 



Secretary 



OF INTEREST TO TEACHERS 



Suggestions for Plant Physiology 

 By G. E. Stone 



Some time ago I received a letter from you with a question as 

 to whether "physiological work in high school botany should be 

 more or less quantitative," etc., and I am sending the following 

 comment, although it may not be worthy of publication. 



I do not feel familiar enough at the present time with the work 

 of the high schools in botany to give an opinion as to how much 

 time should be devoted to this subject, and whether it would be 

 expedient to give it more time, since there is always complaint 

 among citizens regarding the crowding of the public school cur- 

 ricula. If there were only a little time available for a course in 

 physiological work in the high school it would be almost neces- 



