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Dr. Barnhart, chairman of the Budget Committee, reported 

 that all Jiiembers of the committee were present at the meeting. 



The treasurer was authorized by vote of the Club to insure the 

 stock of the Club's publications, against loss by fire and water, 

 for four thousand or five thousand dollars. 



Dr. Britton moved to appoint Dr. M. Levine, business manager 

 of the Club's publications for purposes of increasing advertising 

 and circulation. Motion carried. 



Dr. Pennell reported that the Auditing Committee had ex- 

 amined the books of the treasurer and had found them to be 

 correct. 



The scientific program was then in order. The program 

 consisted of "Abstracts and Criticisms of Botanical Papers read 

 at the Baltimore meeting of the A. A. A. S." 



Prof. R. A. Harper, Dr. E. W. Olive and Dr. A. Gundersen 

 each reported on several papers which he had heard read. 



Discussions followed. 



The meeting adjourned at 5 P.M. 



B. O. Dodge, 



Secretary. 

 A CORRECTION 



Syntherisma pruriens, error in publication. By an unfortunate 

 slip of the pen in transferring Paniciim pruriens Tr'in. to another 

 genus in the preceding March number of Torreya (19: 48. 14 

 May 1919) the generic name was made to read " Sanguinale." 

 This orthographic error should be corrected to Syntherisma 

 pruriens (Trin.) nom. nov., the date of publication remaining 14 

 May 1919, the actual date of issue of the March number of 

 the journal. — J. C. Arthur. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. William S. Cooper, of the University of Minnesota, 

 expects to spend the summer in a study of the ecology of the 

 dunes at the mouth of the Salinas river, near Monterey, Cali- 

 fornia. As the climax vegetation of these dunes is chaparral, 

 Dr. Cooper's work will be an extension of his former study of 

 that formation. 



