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The first meeting of the " Society for Plant Morphology 

 and Physiology " was held in conjunction with the meeting 

 of the American Society of Naturalists at Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, New York, December 28 and 29, 1897. The officers 

 for 1898 are : President, Prof. W. G. Farlow ; Vice Pres- 

 idents, Prof. J. M. MacFarlane and Prof. G. F. Atkinson ; 

 Secretary- Treasurer, W. F. Ganong. 



The most recent issues of Mr. C. G. Lloyd's " Photo- 

 gravures of American Fungi " are Nos. 19 and 20, which are 

 very creditable representations of Lycoperdon pulcherrimwm 

 B. & C. and Trametes serpens Fr. 



The Bulletin of the Torrey Club for January appears 

 with the name of Prof. L. M. Underwood as editor. The 

 staff of associate editors is as follows: C. C. Curtis, B. D. 

 Halsted, Arthur Hollick, M. A. Howe, F. E. Lloyd, Anna M. 

 Vail. 



The daily newspapers have it that "to make a San Fran- 

 cisco Christmas," twenty thousand fir-trees were brought from 

 the north Coast Ranges in Sonoma County. The "fir-trees" 

 are Pseudotsuga taxifolia, Douglas Spruce, and were said to 

 be either seedlings or young trees. The largest trees (twenty 

 years old) sold for $3.00; the smallest seedlings for 25 cents. 



The scientific exploring vessel, Wahlberg, was wrecked 

 on the reef of Laguna Heads, Baja California, three hun- 

 dred miles south of San Diego, on the night of December 16, 

 1897. The crew and the scientific party aboard were all 

 saved, and after three weeks on shore signalled a passing 

 vessel. The Wahlberg was the property of A. W. Anthony, 

 and sailed from San Francisco December 7th on a six 

 months' expedition. The disaster is a serious loss to the ex- 

 ploration of Baja California. 



