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THE ORNITHOLOGIST AND BOTANIST. 



THE GRAY MEMORIAL BOTANICAL CHAPTER 



OF THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 



DIVISION SECRETAKIES. 



A. — Miss C. G. Du Bois, Waterbiiry, 

 Conn. 



B. — Miss Matilda Schlegel, East 

 Aurora, N. Y. 



C. — C. A. Davis, Alma, Mich. ' 



D. — John Higgin, 219 N. Morgan 

 str, Chicago, 111. 



E.— V. K. Chestnut, 1652 Webster 

 str., Oakland, Cal. 



NOTICES. 



A return to quarterly reports, instead 

 of serai-annual, has been decided upon 

 by a vote of the Chapter. In view of 

 this fact I desire to ask every member 

 who intends to furnish a report by next 

 April — either a list of plants determined 

 or on an account of other botanical re- 

 search, or a report on field work — signi- 

 fy this intention by postal to the Presi- 

 dent. Let this be done promptly. 



To all who will thus apply paper of 

 the regular size and thickness, will be 

 sent. It is impossible to get uniformity 

 any other way. 



A word of xlireciion in writing on the 

 paper: 



1. Leave a space of about two fin- 

 gers' widths at iop. 



2. Leave a margin of one fingers' 

 width on the left of the page. 



3. Write only on one • page. 



4. Write distinctly, with cjood black 

 ink. 



It is decided that only such of 

 the repoats as are likely of inter- 

 est to all members, be circulated. 

 Such as lists of plants, which I ask 



members to keep as far as possible sep- 

 arate from other matter in their reports, 

 will be noted in the monthly bulletin, 

 and will be left in the hands of the 

 General Secretary for reference by all 

 who are interested. The general valu- 

 able reports it is proposed to protect 

 well by sending them in uniform cloth 

 sacks, or heavy paper envelopes. These 

 the General Secretary will furnish to 

 every member who has paid his or her 

 dues for 1892. Dues $1.00 payable 

 the first of each year to Miss H. H. 

 Keyes, 53 Washington Str., Watertown, 

 N. Y. There are necessary expenses 

 connected with the working of the 

 Chapter, which make this appeal im- 

 peraiive. 



To our old members there is assured 

 in the future, as well as in the past, an 

 abundant return, both in pleasure and 

 profit from our system of Botanical 

 correspondence. 



We cordially invite not only the old 

 members to continue, but to work with 

 other botanists to join our number. 

 The many excellent reports which have 

 been circulated in the past, and those 

 which are now in the President's hands 

 waiting to be sent on their mission, de- 

 serve a far larger circle of readers than 

 they have at present. Some of the de- 

 lightful accounts of difficulties, in study, 

 and the ways in which they have been 

 overcome by the writers or of earnest, 

 diligent research in different branches 

 of Botany, can not fail of their mission, 

 and increase the zeal for personal botan- 

 ical research in every other member. 



