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by Professor Davis (Chicago) who is in general charge of the botanical 
se bala and Dr. Moore (U. S. Dept. Agric.). Other members of the staff, 
who may be consulted regarding research, are Messrs. True and Kearney 
(U. S. Dept. Agric.), Lyman (Dartmouth) and Wolfe (Harvard). The usual 
course of general lectures may be expected. 
Tue BERMUDA BIOLOGICAL STATION for research, at Flatts, Bermuda, 
will be open again for six weeks during the coming summer. The Station is 
under the direction of Professor E. L. Mark of Harvard University and Pro- 
fessor C. L. Bristol of New York University, and every opportunity will be 
given to those botanists and zodlogists who come to the station with definite 
problems. The date of sailing from New York is July 2, and the total 
expense of the six weeks, including transportation, board, and lodging, will 
be $100. Applications cannot be received later than May I. 
THE COMMITTEE in charge of the scientific congresses at the Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition have arranged for the presence of several distinguished 
foreign botanists, who will give addresses. Acceptances have been received 
from Professors K. GoEBEL of Munich; F.O. BowER of Glasgow ; J. WIESNER 
of Vienna; O. DRUDE of Dresden; Cu. FLAHAULT of Montpellier. Dr. H. 
DE VRIES of Amsterdam has also been invited to give an address and it is 
probable that he will accept. The botanical congress begins Sept. 19. 
Announcement of American speakers and presiding officers will be made 
THE PREPARATIONS for the second international botanical congress to be 
held at Vienna in June 1905 are progressing under the direction of various 
committees. Of course, as the nomenclature question is to occupy 4 promi- 
nent place in the deliberations, and as the proposals must be submitted far in 
advance of the meeting, it appears at this time as though nomenclature was 
the sole subject before the congress. But other parts of the program will be 
developed in due time. The general secretary of the international commis- 
sion on nomenclature, John Briquet, has already received from Otto Kuntze a 
Codex brevis maturus, which the author desires to have solely control the 
ROT of the congress and form the basis of its discussions! About this 
markable proposition there has been the usual vigorous and even vitupera- 
tive correspondence, which has been disseminated by Dr. Kuntze. The 
motto of the Kuntze party has been well formulated by Dr. Ernst H. L. 
Krause, ‘‘Aut Kuntze aut nihil!’”” Twenty-three Swiss and Belgian botanists 
have also submitted proposals. The American committee on nomenclature 
recently held a meeting in Philadelphia and completed the formulation of its 
proposals, which will be submitted in due form before June 30. Doubtless 
there will be still others. We trust American botanists will not neglect to 
contribute to the proposed exposition, fully announced by the Association 
Internationale des Botanistes in the Botanisches Centralblatt. 
