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PAPERS BY ARTHUR HOLLICK. 
“ Recent Discoveries in the Cretaceous Formation on Long 
Island.’—The author notes the discovery, during the past sum- 
mer, of cretaceous plants on the north shore of Long Island, at 
localities not previously reported, thus extending the known 
range of the cretaceous strata on the islands. __ 
“ Some Results obtained in Recent Examinations of the Yellow 
Gravel Formation in New Jersey and Northeastward.”—In this 
communication reference is made to the discovery of fossil leaves 
in the incoherent yellow gravel sandstone at Atlantic Highlands, 
N.J. The specimens, although fragmentary, are apparently sim- 
ilar to those previously found in the same formation at Bridge- 
ton, N. J. : ArtHuR HOLLIcK. 
Proceedings of the Madison Botanical Congress. 
During the summer of 1893 a committee of American botan- 
ists was appointed by Prof. C. E. Bessey, Chairman of the Sec- 
tion of Botany, American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, and Prof. W. P. Wilson, President of the Botanical Club 
associated with the same institution, to arrange for a Botanical 
Congress, to be held at Madison, Wisconsin. The call of this 
committee for such a congress will be found on page 298 of the 
present volume of the BULLETIN. 
The Congress met in Science Hall, University of Wisconsin, 
Madison, at 10 a. m., Wednesday morning, August 23, 1893, and 
was called to order by Prof. J. C. Arthur, Chairman of the com- 
mittee. 
The following resolution, offered by Prof. C. E. Bessey, was 
unanimously adopted: 
Resolved, That inasmuch as the attendance of European bot- 
anists at this meeting has fallen much below the expectation © 
the organizing committee, so that the desired international char- 
acter of the assemblage has not been realized, the name of this 
body be the “ Madison Botanical Congress.” 
A committee, consisting of Prof, N. L. Britton, Prof. C. x. 
_ Bessey, Mr. J. J. Davis, Prof. S. M. Tracy and Prof. Conway Mac- a 
millan, was appointed to nominate officers for the Congress. . 
