336 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
to take a more prominent piace in Section F, At Buffalo we 
expect to see still further evidence of this awakening, not only 
in the number of papers presented, but chiefly in the care shown 
in their preparation. 
— 
The Botanical Club of the A. A. A. 8S. 
exceeded seventy-five for several and dropped the lowest at the 
laboratory gathering, when there were only twenty-eight. 
‘The papers, notes and discussions were of just the kind for 
which the club was specially founded. Those who heard them 
can not but have received much valuable information applicable 
to personal work, as well as having the pleasure of listening 
the results of recent studies. The resumé which follows 
necessarily very brief, and often omits the items which te 
listener may have found the most directly serviceable for his ow? 
needs. 
Tuurspay, August 27,9 a.m. The chairman made several 
suggestions of topics for the consideration of the club, which he 
had already formulated in the last number of the American Nat- 
uralist: 1. The necessity of uniformity in the use of English 
names of plant diseases and of the fungi producing them. : 
The advantage of uniform pronunciation of the Latin names 0 
plants. 3. The distribution of botanical literature among the 
several journals so that each shall represent only certain depart- 
ments of the science. 4, The relations of the botanists 0 
country to the National Herbarium at Washington. 
