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North America," Dr. W. A. Murrill; " Botanizing with a Camera" 

 Mrs. E. G. Britten, was carried out and other members of the 

 Ckib also presented photographs for inspection and took part 

 in the discussions. 



Mrs. Britton stated that she had been lecturing to schools and 

 local Garden Clubs on ''Botanizing with a Camera'' and gave a 

 brief abstract of her methods of illustrating this lecture and of 

 encouraging the teachers and children to take pictures in their 

 localities. She exhibited a series of lantern slides and photo- 

 graphs from J. Horace McFarland Co., of Harrisburg, Pa., and 

 followed it with ten books of hand-colored photographs made by 

 Miss Elsie M. Kittredge, including about i,8oo photographs 

 representing 800 species, as color records for her sets of lantern 

 slides, all of which were much admired and appreciated by the 

 members present. Mrs. Britton also showed a set of uncolored 

 photographs taken by Asahel Curtis on the slopes of Mt. Rainier, 

 Washington, including many beautiful wild flowers, and stated 

 that Dr. Kirkvvood had been able to recognize and name many 

 of them for her. 



Mr. O. P. Medsger of Arlington, N. J., also exhibited some 

 photographs of wild flowers with their insect visitors. 



B. O. Dodge demonstrated the use of stereoscopic views in 

 connection with studies of rusts and other small plants. Some 

 of the views shown were photographs taken with a binocular 

 microscope camera. He explained how stereoscopic views could 

 be taken with the ordinary camera. 



Dr. R. M. Harper, who has been interested for many years in 

 making stereoscopic pictures of plant life, explained his method 

 of taking the views with the ordinary camera. 



Dr. W. A. Murrill spoke of his investigations of the gill-fungi 

 of tropical North America, which he has just completed, the 

 final paper on this subject appearing in the March number of 

 Mycologia. " Some of the larger genera were mentioned and the 

 number of species in them compared with those of temperate 

 regions. Of the 525 tropical species recognized by Dr. Murrill 

 in his studies, 300 have been described by him as new. 



Although the material in hand has all been worked over, this 



