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The statement is made that most of the seedlings imported 
from Europe as U. campestris are U. foliacea, and this has led 
to the confusion in this country in the identity of the English 
and European elms. 
The Bulletins are published at frequent intervals during the 
growing season and are free.—N. T. 
Volume т, No. т, of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record has 
just been issued. It is a quarterly, and according to its fore- 
word, “. . . is purely an administrative organ, and is not in- 
tended either as a scientific publication or as a newspaper, but, 
as its name indicates, to serve as a record of the development 
and progress of the Garden, and as a medium of communication 
between the Garden and its constituency. One of the numbers 
of each volume will contain the Annual Report of the Director 
of the Garden." —N. T. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 
NOVEMBER 29, 1911 
The meeting was held in the laboratory of the New York 
Botanical Garden and was called to order at 3:40 p.m. by the 
acting secretary in the absence of other officers. Теп persons 
were present. The reading of minutes and the transaction of 
business were passed over and the meeting proceeded with the 
scientific program. The first announced paper was by Mr. 
Arlow Burdette Stout on ‘‘The Characteristics of the Fungus 
Sclerotium rhizodes with special Reference to its Action on the 
Cells of its Host," of which the following is an abstract: 
Mr. A. B. Stout presented in part the results of his investiga- 
tions of the fungus Sclerotium rhizodes Auersw., a complete 
report of which will soon appear in a research bulletin of the Wis- 
consin Agricultural Experimental Station.* 
Special mention was made of the behavior of the fungus in 
* A more complete abstract than is here given appeared in Phytopathology, 
1: 69. 
