NEWS. 
On MARCH 30 the Imperial Zoological-botanical Society of Vienna will 
celebrate its fiftieth anniversary by a jubilee session in which related acade- 
mies, societies, associations, and institutes are invited to participate. 
A NEW monthly botanical journal, 7orreya, has been begun by the Torrey 
Botanical Club of New York City, under the editorship of Marshall A. Howe. 
The journal is intended for the shorter notes and items which have been lately 
rather crowded out of the Budletin. 
THE YALE SUMMER ScHootr of Forestry, under the direction of Henry 5S. 
Graves and James W. Toumey, will hold its sessions at Grey Towers, the 
estate of Mr. James W. Pinchot, near Milford, Pa. The school begins July 
8, I901, and continues eight weeks. 
IN A RECENT “minor notice” (30:418. 1900) in this journal, certain 
publications being issued by the botanists of Japan were confused. A letter 
from Professor Y. Yabe makes the following statement: Three series are 
being issued, whose titles may lead to confusion. Jcones Florae Japonicae is 
a university (Imperial Univ., Tokyo) publication, and but one part has 
appeared, having been issued last April. It is in the editorial charge of Mr. 
T. Makino. Phanerogamae et Pteridophytae Japonicae Icon. Iilustr. and 
Cryptogamae Japonicae Icon. Ilustr. are the private publications of a few 
botanists. 
Tue Soctety for Plant Morphology and Physiology met at Johns Hop- 
kins Medical School, Baltimore, Md., Dec. 27 and 28, rgoo, under the presi- 
dency of D. P. Penhallow. The following officers were elected for the 
ensuing year: President, ERWIN F. SMITH; vice presidents, F.C. NEWCOMBE 
and L. M. UNDERWOOD; secretary, W. F. GANONG. The following new 
members were elected: M. A. CARLETON, F. D. CHESTER, E. B. COPELAND, 
T. H. KEARNEY, J. W. ToumMEy. The most important business of general 
interest was the presentation in printed form of the report of the committee 
on reviews of botanical literature, which has already been referred to in this 
journal (p. 143). A committee (Messrs. Ganong, Lloyd, and Atkinson) was 
appointed to take into consideration the subject of a standard college 
entrance option in botany, to be made as widely acceptable as possible. 
The address of the retiring president, 4 Decade of North American Paleo- 
botany, has been published in full in Science, together with abstracts of the 
papers presented, 
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