160 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [auGusT 
THE VERMONT BOTANICAL CLUuB held its ninth annual field meeting at 
Arlington and Manchester in southern Vermont on July 3 and 4. There was 
a good attendance, including visiting botanists from Minnesota, New York, 
Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. The weather was ideal and the ascent 
of Mt. Equinox, under the guidance of Judge and Mrs. Loveland Munson, 
was a delightful mountain climb which afforded much of botanical interest. 
This club now has about one hundred and sixty active members. 
Dr. H. G. TIMBERLAKE, assistant professor of botany in the University 
of Wisconsin, died suddenly on July 1g at the age of thirty. He was taking 
a bath and seems to have slipped on the curved bottom of the enameled tub 
and fallen over the side, striking his head violently on the floor and rupturing 
a cerebral artery. Death occurred before a physician could reach him. Dr. 
Timberlake had recently been promoted to an assistant professorship and was 
married on June 30 to Miss Violet Slack, an assistant in the department. 
THE COMMITTEE OF ORGANIZATION for the International Botanical 
Congress at Vienna plans to have the meetings on Juhe 13-18, 1905, giving 
the mornings to addresses and discussions of topics of present importance 
(a morning to some one subject), and the afternoons to the nomenclature 
problem. The morning of the fifteenth will be reserved for a meeting of the 
Association internationale des botanistes. A great botanical exposition is 
planned, at the time of the Congress, in the palace at Schénbrunn; and 
excursions, botanic and scenic, before and after the Congress, will be 
arranged. 
IT IS PROPOSED to organize a society for horticultural science, the object 
of which shall be more fully to establish horticulture on a scientific basis. 
The membership will naturally be made up of the horticulturists of the exper- 
iment stations and of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, together with 
other scientific men whose work has a horticultural bearing. The meetings 
will be held in connection with those of some kindred society, as the Ameri- 
can Pomological Society or the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science. Any botanists interested are requested to address S. A. Beach, 
Horticulturist, New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 
WITH THE TENTH VOLUME the Annuario del Real Istituto Botanico 
di Roma, founded by Professor R. Pirotta in 1884, comes to an end. In 
its place there is to appear the Anna/i di Botanica, which will be published 
in small fascicles in order to avoid the long delay of a more voluminous 
journal. The new publication will include not only original researches in all 
fields of botany, but also analytical reviews of important papers and syn- 
thetical reviews of current questions. Particular attention will be given to 
the history of botany in Italy and to making known all facts regarding the 
Italian flora. The first fascicle was published on May 15, and the second on 
June 30. 
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