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Bulletin i 



Minutes of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the 



r:x>r Business Meeting. Music Room. Belmont Lodge, 



The President, Dr. D. W. Fellows, called the meeting to 

 order at 8.00 P. M., making a brief address, in which he re- 

 viewed the history of the Society, with a short account of 

 each of the preceding meetings. 



The records of the last meeting were read and approved. 



The reports of committees resulted as follows: 



Plant Distribution . — No report. 



Plant Lore — No report. 



Bryophytes — Mr. Chamberlain reported that the chair- 

 man, Prof. J. F. Collins, had sent a written report, but that 

 in the hurry of packing it had been left at home. A verbal 



abstract was given instead. 

 Alga' — No report. 

 Pungi — No report. 



Dr. Fellows reported that Mr. Samuel S. Talbot, now in 

 the Middlesex School, Concord, Mass., is taking great inter- 

 est in the lichens and is in correspondence with the leading 

 authorities. 



The President introduced the subject of the lost records 

 of the first five meetings. After discussion, 



Voted \ That the President, with as many others as he 

 shall see fit to appoint, be a committee to restore the missing 

 records so far as may be possible. 



The President appointed Messrs. Chamberlain and 

 Knowlton to this committee. 



Mr. Chamberlain read letters from Mr. C. H. Knowlton, 

 Mr. J. O. Newton, Mr. Robert A. Ware, and Mrs. M. L,. 



Botanical Society. 



Oxford, Maine, Jui,y 2d, 1907. 



