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Last.but not least are the 129 half-tone plates, representing 
over 350 species of plants. The book contains no list of these 
illustrations, but they may be classified approximately as follows: 
Photographs of vegetation, 3 per cent. (one of them is out of 
plumb, a very common but well-nigh inexcusable fault of half- 
tone cuts*); photographs of single plants in their native haunts 
(mostly by Bayard Long), 8 per cent.; photographs of whole 
plants removed from their natural surroundings (mostly by 
Stewardson Brown), 12 per cent.; photographs of fragments of 
plants (mostly pressed inflorescences of grasses, sedges and 
rushes), 34 per cent.; photographs of paintings of single plants 
by H. E. Stone, 31 per cent.; line-drawings of single plants (also 
by H. E. Stone), 12 per cent. The last three classes add little to 
existing knowledge, but they are useful for purposes of identifica- 
tion, like the keys, and they doubtless include some species 
which had not been figured before (outside of the small line- 
drawings in Britton & Brown's Illustrated Flora). 
The book contains many other valuable features, which can 
hardly be mentioned in the brief space of a review. With such 
a splendid floristic foundation to build on, the time is now ripe 
for some ecologically-inclined botanist to make a detailed study 
of the vegetation of the same region, and thereby fill a long-felt 
want and perhaps win laurels for himself. It seems strange that 
more work like this of Stone's has not been done, especially in 
those parts of the country where botanists are most numerous 
and where some of them have ample leisure and resources. 
RoLAND M. HARPER 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 
MAY 29, 1912 
The meeting of May 29, 1912, was held in the laboratory of the 
New York Botanical Garden at 3:30 P.M., Vice-president Barn- 
hart presiding. Twelve persons were present. 
The minutes of April 24 and May 14 were read and approved. 
* See Science II: 35: 985. 1912. 
