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THE OENITHOLOGIST AND BOTANIST. 



THE GRAY MEMORIAL BOTANICAL CHAPTER 



OF THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 



NOTES. 



It has been voted to have a Chapter 

 reunion in Chicago during the World's 

 Fair. 



Miss Sarah F. Sanborn reports having 

 found double flowers of Campanula 

 rotundifolia at York, Me. 



Prof, C. F. Wheeler, Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Mich., has been elected a member 

 of the Executive Council. 



Promptly notify your Division Secre- 

 tary, also the President, of a change in 

 yoiir address, even though it be a tem- 

 porary one. 



All members, especially officers and 

 Division Secretaries, will please careful- 

 ly scan this page each month as all offi- 

 cial notices will be published here. 



Hereafter reports will be sent directly 

 to the Division Secretaries instead of to 

 the President. The former will be re- 

 sponsible for their prompt receipt and 

 transmission. 



A bryological section composed of 

 members especially interested in mosses 

 is being organized under the direction 

 of Prof. J. M. Holzinger, Dept. of Agri- 

 culture, Washington. D. C. 



Miss Edith A. Ross recounts a brief 

 trip made last summer to the Yellow- 

 stone Pai"k in which about 100 species 

 were collected. Five of these are fig- 

 ured in the report. By taking advan- 

 tage of the stops of the train a number 

 of interesting plants were taken en-route. 



A copy of this issue goes to a number 

 of old members who have not been heard 

 from in some time. Will you please 

 notify the president at once of your 

 present address and if you desire to re- 

 tain your membership. This number is 

 also sent to some not now connected 

 with the Chapter who may wish to sub- 

 scribe and keep posted concerning our 

 doings. 



The publishers kindly offer to enlarge 

 this magazine and give us another page 

 as soon as the subscription list will war- 

 rant it. It is to be hoped that none of 

 the members will undervalue "the day 

 of small things " but do all in their power 

 to introduce the Ornithologist and Bot- 

 anist to their friends and thus subserve 

 the interests of the Chapter as well as 

 their own. 



While the importance of attaching at 

 least outline drawings or rough sketches 

 of plants to reports can scarcely be over 

 estimated they are not strictly required 

 and their absence will not prevent cir-. 

 culation of the reports. Artistic skill, 

 however, is not necessary and members 

 to whom even the rudiments of drawing 

 seem imijossible will be surprised to see 

 how much interest they may add to a 

 plant description by a little effort in this 

 line. 



Among other interesting reports sent 

 out in April were the following: Hints 

 on the Study of Toadstools, C. L. Shear; 

 The Pyrola Group of the Ericaceae, 

 Frances Wilson; A Botanizing Expedi- 

 tion in Mexico, E. E. Wilkinson; Vari- 

 ations in Common Plants, C. A. Davis; 

 Transplanting Epipactis Helleborine to 

 different Stations in New York, Mathilde 

 Schlegel; Plantago patagonica var. 

 Ai-istata at New Bedford, Mass., by 

 Miss Mary Rodman; Mosses of Litch- 

 field, Conn., Esther H. Thompson. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



The following members were added 

 during April. Div. B, Mrs. Lea Luquer, 

 St. Matthews Rectory, Bedford, N. Y., 

 Miss Edna Porter, 77 Bryant St., Buffalo, 

 N. Y. ; Div. C, Prof. S. M. Bain, S. W. 

 Baptist Univ., Jackson, Tenn. ; Luciou i 

 Hubbard, South Bend, Ind. ; Ralph Bal- 

 lard, Niles, Mich. ; Div. D, E. Summers, 

 Room 23, No. 113 Adams St., Chicago, 111. 



