286 
THE PLANT WORLD. 
» I 9°5 1904 
Mailing list. 1,335 627 
Sustaining members. 101 75 
Local secretaries... 80 43 
States represented. 32 25 
British Provinces, D. C., Korea. 7 2 
Leaflets of the Society will be sent on application to Miss M. 
E. Carter, Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, Mass. 
The annual meeting of the Society is held during December. 
Last year we met in conjunction with The American Association 
for the Advancement of Science at Philadelphia with the coopera¬ 
tion of the Pennsylvania Chapter. This year The American As¬ 
sociation for the Advancement of Science is to meet in New 
Orleans during Convocation Week and the Society has received 
an invitation to meet at the same time, but it has seemed best to 
decline this invitation and to call the meeting for some place more 
readily accessible to most of our members. It will probably be 
held in New York City at the New York Botanical Garden on 
the twenty-seventh or the twenty-eighth of December. 
There are four vacancies in the Board of Managers for 1905 
for which the following nominations have received the highest 
number of votes: 
Mr. Stewardson Brown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
Miss Jean Broadhurst, Trenton, New Jersey. 
Mr. William T. Davis, New Brighton, New York. 
Miss Alice F. Eastwood, San Francisco, California. 
Professor F. E. Lloyd, New York, New York. 
Mr. E. L. Morris, Washington, D. C. 
Mr. Charles C. Plitt, Baltimore, Maryland. 
Mr. C. L. Pollard, Springfield, Massachusetts. 
Members will please select four names and send their votes to 
Mrs. N. L. Britton, Secretary, New York Botanical Garden, 
Bronx Park, N. Y. C., before December 25, 1905. 
Correspondence. 
Editor Plant World. 
Dear Sir: 
In attempting to educate the people in the-vicinity of Agricul¬ 
tural College, Michigan, to spare wild flowers in woods, swamps, 
