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Some there are who will feel that the evolution of the ecology- 
idea has changed, become more individualistic and narrow, less 
communistic and “broad.” For such the present book will 
not be “ecology” at all, but a study of the response of plant 
individuals and their organs to external influences. That such 
response is the fundamental and penultimate basis of ecology 
all will agree, but that it is the superstructure and ultimate aim 
of the science some will doubt. But ‘‘ecologists are not agreed 
even as to fundamental principles and motives, indeed по one, . . . 
least of all the present speaker, is prepared to define or delimit 
ecology." Warming did not say this, nor Clements, but Henry 
Chandler Cowles said it as late as 1904.* 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 
FEBRUARY 28, 1912 
The meeting of February 28, 1912, was held in the Museum 
Building of the New York Botanical Garden, 4 P.M., Vice- 
President Barnhart presiding. Fifteen persons were present. 
The minutes of the meetings of January 31 and February 13 
were read and approved. 
Dr. Marshall A. Howe, Secretary of the Board of Editors, 
presented the following proposed agreement between the Torrey 
Botanical Club and Columbia University : 
With a view to enlarging the Library resources of the Depart- 
ment of Botany of Columbia University and of the Torrey 
Botanical Club, the following AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TOR- 
REY BOTANICAL CLUB AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY WAS ENTERED 
INTO. 
It is hereby agreed by Columbia University that it will pro- 
vide for the storage of the publications of the Torrey Botanical 
Club; and that it will bind, catalogue and make accessible the 
periodicals received by. it in exchange for the publications dis- 
tributed in the manner below described. 
It is also agreed that members of the Torrey Botanical Club 
* Science II. 19: 879. Је 1904. 
