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presiding officer led to a very close count between Penzig and 
Strasburger, the latter attaining the position by a majority of 
one. The further sessions were presided over in order by 
Vasey, Vilmorin, Borodin, Marshall-Ward, Burnat, and Du- 
rand, each using his native speech except Strasburger and 
Borodin who used French. 
The number of delegates in actual attendance is a difficult 
question to determine. A list of members of the Congress 
was published and early distributed, but this included several 
who had expected to be present but were unfortunately de- 
tained. Of the 196 names published in the list we know of 
at least 28 who were not present; among these were Cohn, 
von Thiimen, Brefeld, N. L. Britton, Bailey-Balfour, Malin- 
vaud and Thistleton-Dyer. 
The members of the list (of whom we personally met 62) 
were divided among the various nationalities as follows: 
Italy 108, Germany 25, France 13, Great Britain 12 (of whom 
only six were present), Austro-Hungary 9, United States 6 
(of whom three were present), Switzerland 4, Belgium 3, 
Scandinavia 3 (of whom only one was present), Russia, Spain 
and Turkey each one. Ten others were distributed from 
Mexico and Cuba to Mauritius and New Zealand, but none of 
ponsress, Mt. Holyoke was further represented by two of 
,'€ 8raduates from its botanical laboratory, Miss Catharine Bar- 
ur, of San Sebastian, Spain, and Miss Arma Smith, of Con- 
a , who are pioneer botanical missionaries from the 
“Wworld to the botanically less-known regions of the old, and 
