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Flower Preservation Society, which was held at the Mansion ol 

 the New York Botanical Garden on May 15 and at which Mr. 

 Stewardson Brown of Philadelphia gave an illustrated lecture. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, chairman of a special committee to write a 

 letter of congratulation to Capt. John l^onnell Smith of Baltimore 

 on the celebration of his ninetieth birthday, June 5. read a copy 

 of a letter which had been drafted and this report of the committee 

 was accepted by the Club. 



Dr. F. W. Pennell, for the Field Committee, referred to the 

 plans for the Memorial Day excursion, in cooperation with the 

 Philadelphia Botanical Club. 



Dr. M. A. Howe, for the Editorial Board, referred to a project 

 for publishing the correspondence between John Torrey and 

 Louis de Schweinitz and suggested authorization for its publica- 

 tion in the Club's Memoirs. On motion of Dr. N. L. Britton 

 it was voted to refer the matter to the Editorial Board with 

 power to publish, if the financial means could be secured. 



The resignation of Miss Amelia R. Goodlatte, Passaic, N. J., 

 was accepted. 



Dr. Britton exhibited the remarkable seed-pods of a Cen- 

 irolobium recently collected in Ecuador by Dr. J. N. Rose. 



The announced scientific program consisted of four communi- 

 cations, as follows: 



1. "Morphogenesis in Dictyosteliiim'' by Dr. R. A. Harper. 

 (No abstract furnished.) 



2. Dr. Seaver showed specimens of Btdgaria glohosa collected 

 by Mrs. H. T. Gussow in the Lievre woods of Quebec and com- 

 municated by Prof. J. H. Faull, of the University of Toronto. 

 While the species has been recorded once from Ottawa, Canada, 

 this is the first living specimen seen by the speaker and so far 

 as he knows only the second record of the species from North 

 America. The American specimens dififer from the excellent 

 European illustrations by Schmidel in that the hymenium of the 

 American form is much more expanded. This, however, is 

 thought to be due to a difference in age and is not regarded as of 

 specific importance. In all essential details the American plants 

 seem to be identical with European. The speaker was especially 



