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ian fashion, and probably operate in some way to control growth 
correlations. 
Meeting adjourned at 4:45 P.M. 
Respectfully submitted, 
FORMAN T. McLean 
Secretary 
NOVEMBER 19, 1930 
The meeting was called to order at the New York Botanical 
Garden at 3:30 p.m, by President Sinnott. Minutes of the meet- 
ing of October 15 were read and approved. Thirty members were 
present. 
The resignations of Miss Rebecca Ornstein and Miss Laura 
B. Broomall were accepted with regret. 
Brief reports by members on the International Botanical 
Congress were as follows: 
Dr. Elmer D. Merrill stated: 
The Fifth International Botanical Congress at Cambridge, 
England, under the presidency of Professor A. C. Steward of 
Combridge University, August 16-23, 1930, was initiated by a 
formal reception to delegates and members of their families at 
the Imperial Institute in London on Friday evening, August 13. 
The following morning a special train took the delegates to Cam- 
bridge, where the Congress officially convened on Monday morn- 
ing, August 16. 
The Congress was organized as follows: Bacteriology, P rof. 
R. E. Buchanan, Iowa State College, president; Phytogeo- 
graphy and Ecology, Prof. H. C. Cowles, University of Chicago, 
president; Genetics and Cytology, Prof. O. Rosenberg, Botanis- 
ka Institutet, Stockholm, president; Morphology and Anatomy, 
Prof. J.C. Schoute, Gröningen, president; Mycology and P iant 
Pathology, Prof. L. R. Jones, University of Wisconsin, prest- 
dent; Plant P hysiology, Dr. F, F. Blackman, Cambridge Univ- 
ersity, president; Paleobotany, Dr. D. H. Scott, Basingstoke, 
president; Taxonomy and Nomenclature, Prof. L. Diels, Berlin, 
president. 
: The scope of this paper does not permit a detailed considera- 
tion of the numerous and important papers that were pr esente 
