36 The Botunical Gazette. (January, 
are: 1, zoology; 2, anatomy; 3, neurology; 4, palaeontology; 5, physi- 
ology; 6, botany. From such a classification it is plain that the 
position of botany ina ¢rwe classification is not apprehended. The — 
erroneous use of the word botany in such a connection is no less re-_ 
markable than the erroneous use of the word zoology as exclusive of 
a 
dicated in the grouping used in the circular before me. It is a matter 
of regret to us all that in an institution of so much promise as the — 
new Chicago University there should be so evidently retrogressive 2 — 
nt. i the world and here at home in our ssocia 
wo have an ect on the — 
minds of these wanderers from the philological fold, I suggest that the — 
botanists present it, for their science, at Madison in 1893.— CONWAY — 
MacMILtay, University of Minnesota. 
ge fora formal congress. There being no committee t0 
reparing for the congress, after consultatio? 
ists, it was thought advisable that the chairmat 
of the Section of Botany of the American Association for the Ad 
yancement of Science, and the president of the Botanical Club, Dr 
Wilson, should appoint a committee to take the 
Accordingly on Dec. oth, 
matter 1n en 
notices were sent to the following gentleme® 
