1 8 THE PLANT WORLD. 



NEW YORK MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIA- 

 TION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



The fifty-seventh meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science was held at Columbia University, New 

 York City. December 27, 1906, to January 2, 1907. 



The meeting was one of the largest and most interesting in the 

 history of the Association. That fully 1,500 men and women who 

 are devoting their lives to scientific research should have gathered 

 from far and wide for a mutual exchange of ideas and the in- 

 spiration that comes from personal intercourse, is one proof more 

 that this is indeed an age of science. The papers that were read 

 and the work that was exhibited during the meeting showed that 

 the results of this research are not only an addition to the sum 

 of human knowledge, but are also an actual contribution to the 

 economic welfare of man. 



The evening before the opening meeting of the Association the 

 Torrey Botanical Club tendered a reception to visiting botanists 

 in the botanical laboratories at Schermerhorn Hall. The occasion 

 was marked by a notable gathering of botanists from all parts 

 of the country. Among those present were. Dr. Daniel T. Mac- 

 Dougal, Director of the Department of Botanical Research of the 

 Carnegie Institution ; Professor Charles E. Bessey and Professor 

 F. E. Clements, of the University of Nebraska ; Professor George 

 F. Atkinson, Professor W. W. Rowlee, and Dr. E. J. Durand, of 

 Cornell University ; Dr. Bradley M. Davis, Dr. C. J. Chamberlain, 

 and Dr. John M. Coulter, of Chicago University ; Professor 

 William Trelease, Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, and Professor J. 

 Arthur Harris, of the Missouri Botanical Garden ; Dr. F. S. 

 Earle, and Dr. Melville T. Cook, late of the Cuba Experiment 

 Station ; Professor J. C. Arthur, of Purdue University, Lafayette, 

 Indiana ; Dr. B. E. Livingston, of the Desert Botanical Laboratory, 

 Tucson, Arizona ; Dr. Duncan S. Johnson, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University ; Dr. Forrest Slireve, of the Woman's College, Balti- 

 more ; Dr. A. F. Blakeslee, of Harvard University ; Dr. Joseph E. 

 Kirkwood, of Syracuse University ; Dr. George H. Shull, of the 

 Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, Long 



