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The following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: 
President, Tait Butler, Department of Agriculture, Raleigh. 
Vice-President, .J. J. Wolfe, Trinity College, Durham. 
Secretary-Treasurer, E. W. Gudger, State Normal College, 
Greensboro. 
Executive Committee, Chas. H. Herty, University of N. C., 
Chapel Hill; John F. Lanneau, Wake Forest College, Wake Forest ; 
W. H. Pegram, Trinity College, Durham. 
The Committee on Resolutions brought in the following report, 
which was unanimously adopted : 
In pursuance of the duties devolving upon the commit- 
tee appointed, the committee begs to submit the follow- 
ing resolutions: 
(1) That in the death of Prof. J. W. Gore, Dean of 
the Department of Applied Science and Professor of 
Physics at the University of North Carolina, the North 
Carolina Academy of Science feels that it has suffered 
profound loss, — the loss of an investigator whose scien- 
tific attainments were notable, a scholar whose interest 
in scientific progress, in general as well as in his own and 
allied subjects, was unbounded, and a man whose broad 
humanity and high Christian character were a source of 
inspiration to all with whom he came in contact. 
(2) That a copy of these resolutions be published in 
the official organ of the Academy and likewise in the 
public press. 
/ The next meeting of the Academy will be held at Trinity Col- 
lege, Durham, N. C., May. 1909. 
The following papers were presented : 
The Amanitas of the Asheville Plateau , by H. C. Beardslee, of Ashe- 
ville, N. C. 
The following list of species was reported : 
Amanita Caesarea Scop., A. virosa, A. Phalloides Fr., A. mus- 
cariaLinn., A. pantherina DC., A. junquillea Quel., A. strobili- 
formis Paul . , A . solitaria Bui ., A. schinocephala Vitt., A. rubes- 
