BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. This society consists of a group of botanists, active in various fields, resident in the United States and Canada. It was founded in 1893 and reorganized in 1906, when a union of the original society with the Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology and the American Mycological Society occurred. Its membership is unlimited, be ing in 1928 about 1,200. Corresponding members, elected from prominent foreign botanists, may be chosen to the number of 4o ; in 1928 there were 19 such members. The publications of the Society are the American Journat of Botany, published by the society in co-operation with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Miscellaneous Series, containing Year Book, Proceedings of the Society, Necrology, Historical Numbers, Programmes, etc.