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REVIEWS 



Plants In health and disease* 



While this little book is said hy the authors to be nothing more 

 than a summary of a course of lectures given at the University 

 of Manchester in 1915-16, it is certainly a most readable and 

 remarkably compact account of the life of plants. This is a 

 war book, and reveals to us in a small degree the bit which the 

 scientific men of England are doing in their great crisis. The 

 lectures were addressed to an audience of men and women 

 gardeners and "allotment-holders" of Manchester and vicinity. 

 While the abundant illustrations which accompanied the lectures 

 were necessarily omitted from the book, the text is, nevertheless, 

 made very clear and attractive by the copious use of familiar 

 facts and principles underlying gardening and horticulture. 

 Professor Weiss has written the first seven chapters on the general 

 features of plant life; Mr. Robinson the following five chapters on 

 fungous diseases; Mr. Imms four chapters on injurious insects 

 and animals, and one on beneficial animals. 



E. W. Olive. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



October 10, 1916 



The meeting of October 10 was held in the lecture room of the 

 Department of Botany, Columbia University. The meeting was 

 called to order at 8:15 P.M. by the President. Twenty-eight 

 persons were present. 



The minutes of the meeting held May 31 were read and ap- 

 proved. Dr. H. S. Piatt, 561 W^est 141st St., New York City, and 

 Miss Ruth B. Fisher, St. Marks, New Brighton, N. Y., who had 

 been received as members of the Club by the Field Committee 

 during the summer were formally elected to membership. 



Several members responded to the call of the president for an 

 account of some of their botanical experiences during the vacation. 



* Weiss, F. E., Imms, A. D., and Robinson, W. Plants in health and and 

 disease. Pp. i-viii + 1-143. Longmans, Green^Sc Co., 1916. Price 50 cents. 



