Jan. 1904 ] The American Mycological Society 47 
In order to further facilitate permanent organization, your 
committee submits herewith the tentative draft of a constitution, 
together with proposals for committees upon charter member¬ 
ship ; upon terminology, chromotaxia, etc., and upon affiliation 
with other botanical societies.” 
The report of the committee was accepted, with the excep¬ 
tion of the provision relating to constitution, and the committee 
was discharged. It was moved by Professor Atkinson, seconded 
and carried, that the meeting organize permanently under a sim¬ 
ple set of rules. It was also moved and carried that the meeting 
proceed to the election of a president, vice-president, and a sec¬ 
retary-treasurer, to serve to the close of the next annual meeting, 
and that the ballot be viva voce . 
The following officers were elected: President, Dr. Thaxter, 
Harvard; Vice President, Dr. Earle, New York; Secretary-treas¬ 
urer, Dr. Clements, Nebraska. It was moved and carried that 
the president be empowered to appoint a committee of three to 
-consider plans of affiliation with the other societies. The presi¬ 
dent asked for an expression of opinion in regard to the matter 
of affiliation, in the course of which it was evident that the so¬ 
ciety was a unit in favor of such a step. The committee appointed 
consists of Mr. Shear, Professor Atkinson, and Professor Bur- 
rill. Dr. Farlow raised the question of the membership of the 
society, and it was finally determined that those present as well 
as those to whom the circular letters were sent should be consid¬ 
ered charter members, upon signifying their intention, and upon 
the payment of the assessment of one dollar. The meeting then 
adjourned. 
The mycologists present were Arthur, Atkinson, Burrill, 
Clements, Clinton, Duggar, Farlow, Fink, Freeman, Hedgcock, 
Kellerman, Macbride, Shear, Thaxter, Tracy. 
The papers presented Wednesday morning were as follows: 
The Genus Harpochytrium; Its Development, Synonomy and Dis¬ 
tribution. G. F. Atkinson. 
The Phylogeny of Lichens. F. E. Clements. 
The Necessity of Reform in the Nomenclature of Fungi. F. S. 
Earle. 
The Taxonomic Value of the Spermogonium. J. C. Arthur. 
Proof of the Identity of Phoma and Phyllosticta on the Sugar Beet. 
G. G. Hedgcock. 
Unpublished Notes on the Uredineae. M. A. Carleton. 
Craterellus taxophilus, a New Species of Thelephoraceae. C. Thom. 
Fungi Cultivated by Texas Ants. A. M. Ferguson. 
Symbiosis in Lolium. E. M. Freeman. 
In the afternoon of the same day the following mycological 
papers were, by courteous arrangement, read before the Botanical 
Society: 
Cultures of Uredineae in 1903. J. C. Arthur. 
Uredineous Infection Experiments in 1903. W. A. Kellerman. 
