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nodes, and racemes; lecture upon transpiration, respiration, 

 photosynthesis and osmotic pressure; and would then drop the 

 poor mangled thing and tread it in the dust." That such a 

 person should write a textbook sounds dreadfully familiar to us, 

 but, "It resembled a treatise upon engineering: it treated the 

 flowers as if they were articles of commerce made in Birming- 

 ham." 



The book is full of flower lore and the love of flowers that is an 

 almost lost art among some professional botanists. Many notes 

 on the cultivation of rare and beautiful plants will be helpful to 

 the wild gardener, and the chapter on the "Higher Sportsman- 

 ship" will be balm for those interested in the preservation of wild 

 plants. Not only in England but all through the Alps the author 

 leads the reader to that quieter enjoyment of flowers and their 

 haunts of which he knows so well, and about which he writes so 

 beautifully. Unfortunately most American readers will lose 

 much of the charm of the many allusions, they are so peculiarly 

 local and insular, and this is to be regretted, as some of them are 

 of a delightfully whimsical turn. 



The book is to be most earnestly commended to all nature 

 lovers and to those botanists who have the wit to understand. . 

 —Ed. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



November io, 1914 



The meeting for November 10, 1914, was held at the American 

 Museum of Natural History at 8:15 P.M. President Harper 

 presided. One hundred persons were present. 



The program for the evening consisted of an illustrated lecture 



on "The Life History of a Tree," by Dr. C. Stuart Gager. 



Adjournment followed. 



B. O. Dodge, 



Secretary. 

 November 25, i 914 



The meeting of November 25, 1914, was held in the morpho- 

 logical laboratory of the New York Botanical Garden at 3:30 



