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The following persons were nominated for membership: Dr. 

 A. H. Chivers, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.; Mr. Kenneth 

 R. Boynton, N. Y. Botanical Garden, N. Y. City; Miss Margaret 

 Slosson, N. Y. Botanical Garden, N. Y. City; Dr. M. A. Graham, 

 127 Kensington Avenue, Jersey City Heights, N. J.; and Miss 

 Olga Hinsberg, 1285 Hoe Avenue, The Bronx, X. Y. City. 



The death of iMrs. Alia Doughty, occurring February 12, 

 was announced. 



The resignation of Dr. E. D. Clark was read and accepted with 

 regrets. The resignation of Mr. F. V. Rand was also accepted. 



The following new members were then elected: Dr. A. H. 

 Chivers, Mr. Kenneth Boynton and Miss Margaret Slosson. 



The first number on the announced scientific program was a 

 paper on '' Agalinis and Allies in North America," by Dr. F. W. 

 Pennell. An abstract prepared by the speaker follows: 



"A brief summary of the speaker's investigations in this group 

 of scrophulariaceous plants was presented. Of this group, until 

 recently mostly included in Gerardia L., he would recognize as 

 occurring in Xorth America nine genera and seventy-nine species. 

 Two of these genera, both monotypic, and nineteen species are 

 now being proposed as new. The attempt is being made to 

 work out as thoroughly as possible the interrelationship of the 

 various species, then from this the comparative phylogeny of 

 the several genera. Of the fifty-three species occurring in the 

 United States nearly all have been studied and described in their 

 native environments, a point, the value of which in taxonomic 

 work, the speaker believes cannot be over-emphasized. Speci- 

 mens illustrating most of the latter species were shown, also maps 

 showing the known range of each. As besides his own collec- 

 tions, the speaker has reviewed nearly all extant herbarium- 

 material of this group, these maps portray distribution with 

 unusual completeness. Also brief mention was made of the type 

 of root-parasitism in the several genera. The results of this 

 investigation, carried out under a research appointment from 

 the University of Pennsylvania, are to appear in a forthcoming 

 monograph on "Agalinis and Allies in North America." 



Dr. A. B. Stout then gave a paper on "A Dwarf Mutant of 



