364 The Botanical Gazette. _ [September, 
large bas-relief in plaster of Linnzeus, by Jacob Eriksson, of Stock- 
holm. 
against a tree admiring a wild flower in his buttonhole. The pose is 
admirable, and the expression just what a person familiar with the 
character of the great naturalist will regard as best portraying his 
nature. In the arch above is crouching Flora with an armful of flow- 
ers. The piece is valued at $1,500. It has been secured by a Swedish 
gentleman of Chicago and will be presented to the Chicago Art 
Institute at the close of the Exposition. The sculptor is now in Paris 
executing the same piece in marble to be placed in the Museum of 
Stockholm.—J. C. A. 
EDITORIAL. 
ALL BOTANISTs who wish to promote the interests of this vast scl- 
ence in America (and who does not) must feel gratified at the outcome of 
the gatherings of botanists in the latter part of August at Madison. 
For almost two weeks daily meetings were being held with which 
botanists were more or less closely identified. Numerous papers 
scientific importance were presented at these gatherings. Section G, 
the new section of botany colonized from section F, was one of the 
busiest of the sections. Thirty-four papers were presented aes 
and only thirty-five before the long established and popular section 
anthropology. 
BuT OUR GRATULATION is based not so much on the number and 
character of these papers as upon the amount of work undertaken os 
for selfish ends but for the purpose of advancing the interests , 
botanical research and instruction, and especially upon the oe 
with which all these schemes were undertaken. This spirit per 
cooperation is one of the most promising evidences of the g tiie! 
lowship which seems to characterize botanists more than nt these 
Scientific groups we could name. The manifestation of it a oi 
Madison meetings has been even more marked than at wee 
year when we commented upon it. It is to be hoped that t vpational 
here is only the precursor of a similar sentiment of inte 
Scope. ee otice- 
THE SUSTAINED INTEREST in these annual gatherings - eer aii 
able. Although the attendance upon the American preg 
-whole fell: far below expectations, the registration Scat ite aS) 
300, the number of botanists present was almost if not essa 
as at Rochester. It is safe to say that the number © 
Madison did not fall much short of one hundred. 
e figure is life size, and shows the father of botany leaning 
