EDITORIAL. 
THE BOTANICAL MEETINGS in Buffalo in connection with the Amer- 
can Association were remarkably successful. American botanists 
were present in large numbers, and the attendance 
Botanical 
Meetings was well sustained throughout the almost continuous 
: session i ; i ays preceding the 
in Buffalo. ions of six days. During two days p g 
meeting of the Association the Botanical Society was 
represented by eleven of its twenty-three members, and the papers 
presented were of a type that justified the existence of the organiza 
tion. With the opening of the Association, however, it became evr 
dent that the Section of Botany and the Botanical Club were 
have the most largely attended sessions of their existence. . In Sec- 
tion G more than forty papers were upon the programme. These 
papers, moreover, were notably strong, representing well the great 
increase of botanical activity in this country. The most notable 
feature of the meeting was the presence of a large representation 
of our younger botanists, who have been trained in the newer 
methods, and whose crisp and clear presentations of important work 
augured well for the future of American botany. The Botanical Club, 
also, was full of papers which would rank better than most of the 
papers in the Section a few years ago. To one in familiar contact 
with American botany for a number of years there could be ne a 
evidence of wonderful development than the Buffalo meeting. © 
seems to the GazeTTE a serious mistake on the part of the ee 
as an individual, and as the representative of an institution peel - 
seeks botanical students and influence, to neglect such meeting 
Such neglect must reflect upon the individual and the mae 
and weaken any hold upon a botanical constituency. we 
especially commend such meetings to the younger race of paar? 
The older botanists, who have cultivated a habit of neglect, “<— be : 
will continue to do so, but it is at the expense of declining gil - 
oF great service in personally stimulating the progress of botan! 
science. 
gpTEMBER 
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