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tes-arracheur"). By dint of "sweet persuasiveness and moral 

 arguments" they have arrived at a happy solution and are plac- 

 ing signs in all hotels and pensions, exhorting them to spare the 

 fauna and flora. " If some people consider this an attack on their 

 'liberty' they are giving a false interpretation to this word; for 

 the society attacks neither a sane joy nor the elements of true 

 liberty; it attacks only license. It fights for law and order; 

 without them there is no true liberty. Without the ' League for 

 the Protection of Nature' the edelweiss would have disappeared 

 from around Zermatt as the chamois has from around Chamonix. 

 Here is the lesson of history, history that repeats itself, whether 

 in the jungles of Asia or the forests of Africa ; and which has neces- 

 sitated the creation of preserves for the fauna and flora, similar to 

 the ' national parks ' of America ; the history which has led to the 

 closed season in the shooting of birds and game and necessitated 

 the creation of ' gardens of refuge ' for the alpine flora of Switzer- 

 land." 



E. G. Britton. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 February ii, 191 9 



The first meeting in February was held at the American 

 Museum of Natural History. President Richards called the 

 meeting to order at 8:15 P.M. There were 28 persons present. 



No business was transacted. 



Dr. E. W. Olive gave an illustrated lecture on "Some Plant 

 disease survey work in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania." 

 The following abstract was prepared by the speaker: 



The speaker spent the summer of 191 8 in plant disease survey 

 work, cooperating with the offices of the Plant Disease Survey 

 and Cereal Disease Investigations, of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, and with the state departments of plant pathology 

 of various experiment stations. 



The special lines of investigation taken up in New York in- 

 cluded studies on the prevalence of fruit diseases, of oat and 

 barley smuts, of onion smut and other truck crop diseases in 



