356 NATURAL SCIENCE [November 



Each group spends a quarter of an hour at each table, and the rest of the 

 hour is devoted to questions or to a general survey of the Museum. 



The meeting of the Botanical Society of America, which was held at Toronto 

 at the time of the visit of the British Association, seems to have been a great 

 success. Dr J. M. Coulter was the president, and there were present a large 

 gathering of English and Foreign botanists. N. L. Britton of New York was 

 chosen president for 1898, which session will be held in Boston, an invitation 

 from the Missouri Botanic Garden for the spring of that year having been 

 reluctantly declined. The chief papers were — A case of ecblasteris and axial 

 prolification in Lepidium apetalum, by B. L. Robinson ; Movement of protoplasm 

 in coenocytic hyphae, by J. A. Arthur ; Pollen grains and antipodal cells, by 

 J. M. Coulter ; The transition region of the Caryophyllales, by F. E. Clements ; 

 A revision of the species Picea occurring in North-Eastern America, by D. P. 

 Penhallow ; Bibliographic difficulties, by E. L. Greene ; and the botanical gardens 

 of Jamaica, by W. Fawcett. 



