iSgi-l Notes and News. 27$ 



Professor Byron D. Halsted has been elected secretary of Section 

 F. of the A. A. A. S., for the meeting to be held next August in 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



Messrs. F. H. Knowi.ton and Theo. Holm, of the U. S. National 

 Museum, sailed for Europe early this month for a two months visit 

 both for science and pleasure. 



A resolution recommending ihe establishment of a National 

 Arboretum at Washington was approved by the Botanical Club, Sec- 

 tion F, and the general Association. 



Dr. J. M. Macfarlane, assistant in botany in the University of 

 Edinburgh, was made welcome by the American botanists at the 

 Washington meeting, and took an active part in the proceedings. 



Mr. Thomas Meehan has found cleistogamous flowers in abund- 

 ance on Polygpnum acre and suspects the same habit in other species. 

 He expects "to make this the topic of a note in the Proceedings of the 

 Philadelphia Academy. 



Professor Andrea Krossnoff, of the University of Charkoff. S. 

 Russia, was present at the botanical meetings of the Association, and 

 desired to make arrangements for the exchange of plants of the Cau- 

 casus and other Russian districts for the plants of central and western 

 N. America. 



The botanical papers at Washington were so numerous that man) 

 well known botanists, who had intended to read, presented no papers. 

 The feeling was strong in favor of a separate Section of Botany, and 

 notice of an amendment to that effect was given, to be acted upon at 

 the next meeting of the Association. 



Mr. O. F. Cook, instructor in biologv at Svracuse University, is at 

 the head of an expedition, to Liberia and other parts of Africa, which is 

 to sail about Nov. i. The object of the expedition is to study the na- 

 tural history of the countrv, especially the plants and insects. Mr. 

 Cook will be glad to hear from any persons who would like material 

 from that region. 



Dr. C. F. Millsp.u-ch, Morgantown, W. Va., will issue a prelimin- 

 ary catalogue of the Flora of West Virginia the coming winter; with 

 his own work in the State he is desirous of compiling that of others as 

 fully as possible. Any botanists who have worked in the State, and 

 who will send a list of species they noted there, giving localities will 

 receive full credit, and six copies of the Flora as return for the kind- 

 ness. 



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Mr. T. King, of Wellington, New Zealand, who was formerly con 

 servator of the state forests on those islands, is preparing sets ot .New 

 Zealand plants of from 500 to 1000 species, which he will dispose 

 of at S4.50 per hundred. Mr. King is the most prominent botanist of 



New 



a good oppor- 



ew Zealand, and author of " The Forest h jora of 

 " Student's Manual of the Flora of N. Z. I his is 

 tunity for any who may wish to secure plants from that region. 



E. Aubert finds a simultaneous evolution of O and CO ? in certain 

 Cactacese when the illumination is of moderate intensity and the tern- 



