294 _ Botanical Meetings. [ZOE 
The names of the first ten selected are not given, but the 
whole twenty-five are as follows: J.C. Arthur, G. F. Atkinson, 
eae: Bailey, C. R. Barnes, C. E. Bessey, E. G. Britton, N. L. 
Britton, D. H. Campbell, J. M. Coulter, F. V. Coville, Daniel C. 
Eaton, W. G. Farlow, E. L. Greene, B. D. Halsted, Arthur 
Hollick, Conway McMillan, B. L. Robinson, C. S. Sargent, F. L. 
Scribner, J. Donnell Smith, Roland Thaxter, William Trelease, 
L. M. Underwood, Lester F. Ward, W. P. Wilson. ‘Two 
informal meetings of those-of the above list in attendance were 
subsequently held,’’ and a committee was instructed to inform 
the others of the twenty-five charter members of the action taken, 
to draw up a constitution, and to report at a meeting to be held 
beginning on the Monday preceding the next meeting of the 
American Association. 
One would think that there must be a strong motive on the 
part of some one to form a society in the face of an adverse 
report of eight out of ten of the committee. ‘That the names do 
not all represent the best of American botany will probably be 
conceded. Certainly some of those included set the standard 
sufficiently low that the young man who has to “ win his spurs ” 
before admittance need not grow gray in the effort. It would 
also be interesting to know which of the botanists honored, con- 
sented to the use of their names, and why all of the editors 
of the Botanical Gazette should be included, while the Torrey 
Bulletin is cut off with only four. 
INTERNATIONAL BOTANICAL CONGRESS AT MADISON. 
In July of the present year a call was issued for an Inter- 
national Botanical Congress to be held at Madison, Wisconsin, 
at the end of the session of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, to be held at that place. The people 
of the United States are never accused of undue modesty, and in 
_ so far as the originators of the movement are concerned, the 
American botanists have shown themselves no unworthy sons of 
the nation. Their ‘‘ International Congress’’ is likely to go 
down into history as an ineffectual attempt by a fragment of the 
American tail to wag the botanical dog. 
Early in the year 1892, when the subject was first broached 
