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at which it was noticed during the past summer was Longport, 

 a few miles south of Atlantic City. 



The chairman, Professor E. S. Burgess, reported success in 

 cultivating Aster Amellus, Virgil's favorite flower and the 

 historic type of the genus Aster. 



Adjournment followed. Marshall A. Howe 



Secretary pro tern. 



NEWS ITEMS 



A. S. Hitchcock spent the summer months collecting and 

 studying grasses in Arizona, California, Nevada^ Utah and 

 Colorado. Several weeks were spent in three of the National 

 Forests of Nevada, the Tolyabe, Humboldt and Nevada. He 

 .was accompanied by his son Albert E. Hitchcock, who collected 

 in Nevada a series of miscellaneous specimens. 



Mrs. Agnes Chase, assistant in Systematic Agrostology, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, is now in Porto Rico investigating 

 the grass flora of that island. 



Dr. J. N. Rose, who is making an exhaustive study of the 

 Cactaceae of America, just returned from an extended trip 

 through New Mexico and southwestern Texas, bringing back 

 with him a collection of some 2,000 specimens of Cactaceae and 

 other flowering plants. 



On the evening of October 21 an audience of about one hundred 

 people attended a meeting preliminary to the organization of a 

 Botanical Society of Northeastern Ohio. The meeting was held 

 in the New Kent State Normal School at Kent, Ohio, and was 

 presided over by Professor L. S. Hopkins of that institution. 

 The lecture of the evening was on the Botany of the Isle of Pines 

 by Dr. O. E. Jennings of the Carnegie Museum, specimens being 

 used for illustration. The second meeting, at which a committee 

 consisting of Messrs. R. J. Webb, of Garrettsville, and A. D. 

 Robinson and Walter Armstrong, of Ravenna, will report on 

 constitution and nominate officers, will be held at Kent on 

 November 21. At this meeting Supt. C. E. Bryant, of Coshoc- 

 ton, Ohio, will speak on "The Orchids of Ohio." 



