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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 
Ay International Congress of Botanists held at Genoa in 
1892, instituted Sept. 9, an International Standing Com- 
mittee on Nomenclature, composed of the following thirty 
botanists: AScHERSON, and Enexer, Berlin; BarLton, 
Bureau and Mauinvaup, Paris; Baker and CLARKE, Kew; 
Baraine, St. Petersburg; Brirron, New York; A. DzeCan- 
DOLLE, Geneva; CARUEL, Florence; CELAKOVSKY, and WILL- 
KomM, Prague; OrepiIN and DvuRAND, Brussels; CoULTER, 
Bloomington; Fries, Upsala; GREENE, Berkeley; HENRIQUES, 
Coimbra; Hooxrr, Sunningdale, Berks; Kanitz, Klausen- 
burg; Kerner de Martian, Vienna; LANGE, Copenhagen; 
Von Murnuer, Melbourne; Lara, Jerez de la Frontera; 
Ravikorer, Munich; Saccarpo, Padua; ScHMALHAUSEN, 
Kieff; Surtnaar, Leyden; WHITTROCK, Stockholm. The 
official notification of membership just received by Professor 
Greene, recites the causes and events which led to the 
institution of the committee. The Congress by a practically 
unanimous vote declared its approval, barring certain signi- 
ficant amendments, of the first three of the now noted Articles 
of Berlin, but declined to give any official expression of 
opinion as to the fourth, and virtually left all questions open 
by referring to this Standing Committee the propositions 
already made, and all others which might arise. The members 
of the committee are advised to confer one with another and 
report to some future World’s Congress, “ the decisions of 
which shall have the force of law.” 
Tux Board of Forestry of California has drawn upon 
itself an abundance of adverse criticism, and the Legislature 
of the State has been asked to abolish the commission. That 
there is a great and important work for the Board to accom- 
plish no one will question, but that its members have dis- 
played any real knowledge of forestry no one is prepared to 
affirm; nor indeed does that prerequisite to the success of 
the commission appear to have been at all necessary to the 
expenditure of an appropriation, as transpires from sensa- 
