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Germination at Intervals of Seeds Treated with Fungicides, 
by W. A. Kellerman. 
The Fertilization of Pear Flowers, by M. B. Waite. 
The Fertilization of the Fig and Caprification, by C. V. Riley. 
A Comparative Study of the Roots of Ranunculacee, by F. 
B. Maxwell (presented by W. R. Dudley.) 
The conditions which determine the distribution of bacteria 
in the water of rivers, by J. H. Stoller. 
Notes on Daucus Carota, by C. W. Hargitt. 
Geographic relationship of the flora of the high Sierra- Nevada, 
California, by F. V. Coville. 
Variation in native ferns, by W. M. Beauchamp. 
Life-for-ever eradicated by a fungous disease, by D. G. 
Fairchild. 
Otto Kuntze’s changes in nomenclature of North American 
grasses, by G. Vasey. 
Revised nomenclature of the arborescent flora of the United 
States, by B. E. Fernow and G. B. Sudworth. 
Characteristics and adaptations of desert vegetation, by F. V. 
Coville. 
Shrinkage of woods as observed under the microscope, by 
F. Roth. 
Pesiza sclerotium, by L. H. Pammel. 
Temperature and some of its relations to plant life, by L. H. 
Pammel. 
Pleospora of Tropeolum majus, by B. D. Halsted. 
Secondary spores of Anthracnoses, by B. D. Halsted. 
A Bacterium of Phaseolus, by B. D. Halsted. 
The significance of Cleiostogamy, by T. Meehan. 
During the meeting it was decided to divide the Section of 
Biology into two sections, one of Zoology and one of Botany. 
The next meeting of the Association will be held at Madison, 
Wis., and the officers elected for the Section of Botany are, Vice- 
Presiients C. E. Bessey, University of Nebraska; Secretary 
F. V. Coville, Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
