400 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [NOVEMBER 
means of these courses. Most of the Junior students of the abandoned col- 
lege have gone to the Forest School at Yale University. The Forestry 
Quarterly will be continued by Mr. Fernow. 
THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA will hold its tenth annual meet- 
ing at St. Louis December 29-31, 1903, under the presidency of Professor C. 
R. Barnes, of the University of Chicago. Headquarters will be established at 
the Southern Hotel, and sessions will be held in the Central High School. 
The retiring president, Dr. B. T. Galloway, chief of the. Bureau of Plant 
Industry, will deliver an address upon What the twentieth century demands 
of botany. Mr. Francis Darwin, of the University of Cambridge, will present 
a paper upon A self-recording method applied to the movement of stomata. 
IN CONNECTION with the International Botanical Congress to be held in 
Vienna about the middle of June 1905, it is proposed to hold a botanical 
exhibition. The International Association of Botanists desires to demonstrate 
the importance of its proposed central bureau by exhibiting material to illus- 
trate its functions. These functions have been defined as follows: ‘(1) To 
give information as to the places where certain collections, herbaria, etc., can 
be consulted ; as to cost of living at places likely to be visited by botanists; 
as to botanical expeditions in preparation, etc. (2) To form a library of 
separate reprints of botanical papers which can be loaned to members who 
so desire, subject to the payment of postage both ways. (3) To form a 
center for the exchange, sale, and purchase of photographs of plant-societies, 
plants, or parts of plants. (4) To obtain and distribute material for investi- 
gation. (5) To assist in exchanging or selling microtome-sections. (6) To 
aid in obtaining and distributing demonstration material. (7) To beacenter 
for obtaining, keeping alive, and distributing pure cultures of algae and 
fungi.” It is especially desired that a complete collection of reprints of every 
author may be obtained for this exhibition with a view of presenting these to 
the library of the central bureau, All material intended for this exhibition 
is to be sent before May 1, 1905, A. d. Botanischen Garten der K. K. Uni- 
versitat in Wien, III, Rennweg 14. The cost of transportation is to be 
borne by the person exhibiting. Further information may be obtained from 
Mr. J. P. Lotsy, 33a Oude Rijn, Leiden, Holland. 
