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Exchange Club) can be initiated; where the botanists can meet infor- 
mallyand become better acquainted. Such were the objects of its founders, 
and these features it should be our endeavor to preserve. Any attempt 
to dignify it by adding formalities or limiting its freedom of speech 
would only ruin it. 
AS IT Is, there is a growing tendency to encroach upon the biological 
section. The sectional committee this year followed the precedent of the 
past two years, and arranged the programme so that all the botanical 
papers were read in the morning, and all the zoological in the afternoon. 
This year the “cuttin 
invited to desert the section, for they are likely to hear a zoological yt Oe 
Which will be quite as instructive and suggestive as a botanical one. 
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Prof. E. Hackel, on the citation of mee pee ot 
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For instance, Triodia acuminata, am saver 4 
fae etc., are no names of Bentham’s, because you can 
“8 of his works where these names are to be 
