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Washington." He stated that four societies held botanical 

 sessions at which papers of great vahie were presented. Per- 

 haps the one which excited greatest interest was a joint com- 

 munication by Professor Bailey and Mr. Webber on "The 

 Mendelian Law of Hybrids." 



Mr. Greensmith, of the Dreer Company, exhibited a New 

 Zealand Veronica {V. Hectori) that strikingly resembled 

 a dwarf conifer, also numerous plant species which showed 

 capacity for propagation by root buds. 



Dr. Macfarlane drew attention to a work in six volumes, 

 "The Flora of the Philippines," recently acquired for the 

 Botanical Library, through the generosity of Messrs. Hering 

 and J. T. Morris, also Michaux's "Silva" and several other 

 works of value. 



An exhibit of plants from the Botanic Garden was then 

 commented on. 



February 6. Dr. Miller, President, in the chair. Dr. 

 Conard spoke on "Impressions of the Botanic Gardens and 

 Herbaria of Europe." The first of these visited was Kew 

 Garden, the large plant houses and herbarium of which were 

 equally admired. The many valuable old type specimens at 

 the South Kensington Museum and at the Herbarium of 

 the Linnean Society proved of great aid in determining some 

 of the critical species. From London the journey was next 

 made to Paris and Geneva. At the latter place the De 

 Candolle, the Barbet-Boissier and the Geneva Herbaria were 

 visited, the last yielding valuable results in new forms, the 

 first in old types of the Prodromus series. After a short 

 stay at Munich, the speaker proceeded to Berlin, where he 

 was richly repaid by finding Caspary's Monograph on the 

 water-lilies and some recently discovered new types. 



Mrs. Julia Chandler then exhibited and described a large 

 Chinese Pomelo orange secured a few weeks before from a 

 Chinese house in the city. She also spoke of several other 

 types of orange that had recently come to her attention. 



Mr. M. Homer exhibited and shortly described a specimen 



