368 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MAY 
seein this meeting several questions will be submitted to the judgment of its 
members, and you are invited to propose rege or in writing such measures as you 
think it desitable that the new society should ad 
The chief object of the association will be ai establishment of a bibliographic 
ied abstracting in a perfectly impartial manner all botanical publications in 
such a pe that the important will be separated from the less 
will not — as some periodicals do—devote page after page to publications of 
questionable value, st most important works are put off with two or three lines or. 
all. 
not mentioned a 
The abstracts ea the desire of the contributors—be published in English, 
_ French, or German. All will be submitted to the judgment of an editor nominated 
by the association and responsible to 
is most desirable that the ene be as wide as possible, since this is the 
only way of making membership inexpensive. Under no circumstances will the 
membership cost more than $6, including the free delivery of the periodical. 
We wish to call your attention to another great advantage of the new society; by 
its means members who live in different parts of the globe will be brought into more 
intimate contact one with another and this will greatly facilitate the procuring of 
material for investigation and demonstration. 
is der certain conditions to be discussed, accepted, or rejected at the general 
ing in Geneva, Switzerland, the proprietors of the Botanisches Centralblatt have 
eae that their journal become the property of the association. 
The call is signed by Bornet, Borzi, Bower, Celakovsky, Chodat, Fair: 
child, Farlow, Goebel, Lotsy, Nawaschin, Raciborski, Rauwenhoff, Schimper, 
Stahl, Warming, and v. Wettstein 
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