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shown to their brethren from abroad, and not less for the graceful and courteous man- 
ner in which this hospitality has been extended, with the promise that wherever our 
meetings may be held in the future every visiting Buffalo botanist will find a warm 
reception in our hearts and homes. 
The President pro. tem. expressed the thanks of the Club to 
Prof. J. C. Arthur for his valuable services as Secretary in the 
past and his arduous labors in organizing the present meeting. 
The Club then adjourned to meet at 9 A.M. on the second 
day of the next meeting of the A. A. A. S. 
In the Biological Section the following papers were presented : 
Atavism the Result of Cross-breeding Lettuce, by E. Lewis Stur- 
tevant; The Bulliform or Hygroscopic Cells of Grasses and 
Sedges Compared, by W. J. Beal; Synopsis of North American 
Pines based upon Leaf Anatomy, by J. M. Coulter and J. N. Rose; 
The Development of the Gymnosporangia of the United States, 
by W. G. Farlow; Plan for Laboratory Work in Chemical Bot- 
any, by Lillie J. Martin; A Study in Agricultural Botany, by 
E. Lewis Sturtevant; Botany of Timber Trees, with special refer- 
ence to the requirements of Forestry, by B. E. Fernow; Memo- 
randa of a Revision of the North American Violets, by Asa 
Gray; A Revision of the North American species of the genus 
Fissidens, by C. R. Barnes. 
During the meeting of the Association the botanists visited 
Niagara Falls and Point Abino, Canada, excursions kindly pro- 
vided by the local committee. 
Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 
Abies Engelmannii. (Garden, xxx., p. 100.) 
It is stated that this tree succeeds remarkably well in St. 
Petersburg despite the extreme cold of Russian winters, and 
that it is not improbable that it will in the future form an impor- 
tant element in the formation of artificial forests in Northern 
Europe. 
Agrimonia Eupatoria. P. Baccarini. ‘‘ Intorno ad una proba- 
bile funzione meccanica dei cristalli di ossalato calcico.” (Ann. 
R. I., Bot. di Roma., i., p. 154, t. xv.) 
Amaryllis Atamasco. (Vick’s Ill. Month. Mag., ix., p. 207; col- 
ored plate.) 
