180 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Jun 
off in the trade in microscopically inspected pork prod- 
ucts. The cost of this work was $154,950.22; average per 
carcass, 15.5 cents; per pound exported, 0.277 cent. For 
1899 the cost was $198,355.14. 
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOTANISTES. 
Several leading botanists of different countries being 
convinced, that a better organization would contribute in 
a most desirable manner to the mutual aim viz. the pro- 
gress of botany, have the honor to invite you to becomea 
member of a new Society to be called the International 
Botanical Association. A general meeting will take place 
at Geneva (Switzerland), on the 7th of August next in the 
botanical laboratory of the University at 10 a.m. Dur- 
ing this meeting several questions will be submitted to 
the judgement of the members and you are invited to pro- 
pose orally or in writing such measures as you think it 
desirable that the new Society should adopt. The chief 
object of the Association will be the foundation of a bib- 
liographic periodical criticising in a perfectly impartial 
manner ull botanical publications. The criticisms will— 
at the desire of the contributors be published in English 
French or German. All will be submitted to the judge- 
ment of an editor nominated by the Association and re- 
sponsible to it. 
It is most desirable that the membership be as wide as 
possible, since this is the only way of making member- 
ship inexpensive. Under no circumstances the member- 
ship will cost more than $6.00, including the gratis deliv- 
ery of the periodical. Another great advantage of the 
new Society is that by its means members who live in dif- 
ferent parts of the globe will be brought into more inti- 
mate contact one with another and this will greatly facil - 
itate the procuring of material for investigation and de- 
monstration. Application for membership should be sent 
to: Dr. I. P. Lotsy, Wageningen, Holland. 
