ASSOCIATIONS FOH T11K AD\ 



rars and not h natures which 



.- . : . . I :iv. ;.-..-. ::.:r- : Ml : 



parlance in limiting the life <f k- 4 , u-na in c.ur 

 i rivers and that the MIH i> our most 



pom .,-ul.mn." The speaker 



emphaaiaed the need oT recogniiinff that ba 



ology only touches annual |*thTogy at a 



point*, ami of the public learning that, so far fr.-m 



ing synonymous with disease, Ui. 

 ..f these organisms appeared to IK 

 rathrr than imrakml to man. Cam were ciUd as 



ology which had nothing ' '" Wll| > medical ques- 

 tion* but investigated problems rai-d 1 7 th 



urist, and gar.i dairyman, 



w.dv- 



in connection with some great I 



The speaker then went exhaustively into 

 UM discoveries regarding the exact relation of bac- 

 teria to the various methods of cheese and butter 

 manufacturers, and pointed out the value of the 

 riiHaTffly* of many well M this 



subject. P "t with the action of 



fungi upon the roots of forest trees, and then ex- 

 plained the nature of researches and the nit r 

 organisms found in manure and soils. With re- 

 spect to these it was shown that there now exists a 

 sketch of the whole of the down grade of the cycle 

 ,-anie nitrogen in Nature: it only needs sup- 

 plementing by the history of the fixation <: 



_.-n from the atmosphere by leguminous 

 plants and certain soil organisms to complete the 

 :. In conclusion, he dealt with wheat rust 

 and the use of manure. 



Among the more Important naj>ers read b 

 this section were the foil.. ta th- Mycelium 



Witches' P.P.,, m Fungus." i, v p. Magnus; 

 urn Hirsutum : A Wooo-Dest roving Fungus." 

 by. EL Marshall Ward : "The Nucleus of the Yeast 

 Plant.' by II. Waircr: "A Disease of the Toma- 

 toes," by W. G. P. Kllis: "Ths Chimney-ahaped 

 Stomata of Holocanthu Kineryi: Some Coiisidera- 

 :i the Functions of Stomata" and " Distribu- 

 tion of Nebraska Trees," by Charles E. Bessey; 

 -On the Species of Picea in Northeastern Amer- 

 ica." by D. P. Penhallow; -Contribution to the 

 History of Ranunculus," by John M. Coulter; 

 "Vegetation of ^ion of' the Prairie Prov- 



ince,* by Boscoe Pound and F. K. Clements; "The 

 Zonal Constitution and Distribution of Plant 

 mations" and "The Transition Region of the 

 Caryophyllales," by 1. K. c],. m ents : -Note on 

 l'l.-uroc.Hcus;' by Dorothea F. M. Pert/; "Sperma- 

 toxoids of i-.tegrifolia." by II. .1. Weber; 



"Diagrams illustrating the Result of Fifty Years' 

 Experimenting on the Growth of Wheat at Roth- 

 junsted, England." by II. K. Armstrong; "Pre- 

 liminary Account of | \. -\ v M.-thod -I Investigat- 



ita," by Fran'is Darwin; 

 Him II. Campbell; "Lecture on Fossil 



Plant.*." ' K-e of 



zoids th- b\ .1. L. 



William-; "Insemination in ami "On 



more than One Plant from th. hallium." 



J.Lowe; "Results - nmeiits in 



Crow Fertilization." by v. 



brid F.-rn. with R.-marks on Hybndity." | .F. P,. 

 Fanner: "Morphology of th- Vascular 



Plant,-" and - The Gametophyte of Px'tryc hium 

 virginiannni." by E. C. Jeffrey: M Remark 

 Change* in NuinH-r of >iH>rangia in Va^-ular 

 Plants," by P. O. Bower; " Notes on Pos 

 tace*v* by A. c. - :-t.thrix a 



mycoticaand Allied Species of Stn-|.t..thrix." 

 M. Crookshank; M Obsenrations on the < 

 <**V by H. B. Macallura. 



Also the following reports were presented before 



: -<>,, ii , (l f Plan 1 



and "<m the Fcrt ili/.at ion of the 



:c." Oil ,-|y notc.l. 



this section met in joint scion \\ith Section I. 

 Popular lYiilnrcx. i MI Aug. I'.t tli 



i the 

 Coillltess of Aberdeen ga\ 



tion in tin building. 11111- 



l.-cluiv. on -( Metals." I A . ( . 



'. on 

 the cvenii 



men of T Unti-: 



i-lc. and the Problem^ \\hich the 

 Regio 



given by Dr. 1 1 s. Special sennnns were 



preached mi A :,. dral by 



1 1 Sullivan : in St. .lames'.s Soiiaie I' 

 Church by President 1'atloii. of Princeton I 

 sity ; andinSt, Michael's Cathedral b\ the K, \. 1 ( . A. 

 llalpin and the Kev. l-'ath.-r l.'\.ui. The u-Mial 

 t ional .service of the association was held in I he uni- 

 ^unday under the direction of the Ke\. 

 Principal Sheraton. The- ning leetni 



on " Kart h.|Uakes and \"oi> d u;is del: , 



on Aug. 28 by Prof. .John Milne. The usual 

 :i l>y the local executive 

 inittec in the university building on Am:. '-'I. ( n 



J."> a dinner was given in honor of I.. .pi 

 vin. Lord Lis|i-r. an<l Sir .lolni Kvans in the j.a\il- 

 imi of the Horticultural iJarden-.. Tu.. inti-r- 

 ceremonies during the week were ii atioDI 



of the University of Toronto <>n An-. "J". wlien the 

 honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred on Lord 

 Kelvin. 'Lord Lister, and Sir John Kvans. and that 

 of the t'niver-ity of Trinity College, on Ai. 

 when the honorary degree of D. c. L. wa 

 on Sir John Kvans Lord Kelvin. Lord 

 William Turner, .lames II. liryce, and Sir < 



bertaoik Tin- afternoon entertainment^ in- 

 cluded garden parties, several of which wen- held 

 on each afternoon during the week. In addition 

 t.> the foregoing, a series of four special e\< m 

 as follow: To Niagara river. Niagara Falls and 

 return; to Mn>kka and return; to IVnetan- 

 guishene and return; and to Hamilton. Ni 

 Falls, and return \\ : d for Aug. 'Jl : and 



subsequent to the meeting the following BXCUl 



provided for: To Toronto. . 

 river. Montreal, ami return; Toronto. Kin. 

 St. Lawrence river. Montreal, and return: and 

 T<>p,nto. Parry Sound. Algonquin Park. Ottawa, 



Montreal, and return, 



Attendance and Grants. -At the concluding 

 meeting, held (.n Aug. 'J5.it was reported to the 

 association that those in attendance at the m< 

 comprised 1'-'" old life members, 8 new life meni- 

 J^ll old annual members and members of t he 

 American a-siM-iation. PJ5 new mem be r s, '*2 asso- 

 ciates, 100 ladies, and 41 corresponding hoi, 

 members. Total in attendance at the associai 



A report from the Committee on Kecomnienda- 



; art grants to the aniouir 



f..r scientific : was adopted. The 



grants were as follow: To establish a meteorolog- 

 ical observatory on Mount Koyal. l'5(; to further 



the" fauna and Mora of the Plej-i 

 beds in Canada. IX'O; the collection, preservation. 

 and systematic registration of Canadian j.hoto- 

 graphs of geological inten-t : the biology ..f t In- 

 takes "f ( ;:>: the north we-tcjn tribes of 

 '.75 : to orgaiii/e an ethnological >ur 

 '.;."); the establishment of a biological sta- 

 tion in the (iulf of St. Lawrei 



Ne\t Mcetinir. The association will meet in 

 1898 in Bristol on - :. and for the 



