272 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [SEPTEMBER 
Tar MEXICAN BOTANICAL CLUB is an organization which can be made 
very useful to botanists who desire to cultivate Mexican plants for study. 
Those who wish for a fuller knowledge of its purpose and of its ability to 
serve botanists should communicate with William Brockway, Tuxpan, 
Michoacan, Mexico. 
ATTENTION IS CALLED to the circular issued by the Pasteur Monument 
Committee and distributed with this number of the BoTANICAL GAZETTE. 
The opportunity to honor the memory of Pasteur in a most effective way is 
one that botanists will not pass by. The senior editor of the GAZETTE has 
been asked to collect and forward subscriptions. 
IN ALL PROBABILITY the next meeting of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science will be held in Toronto in connection with 
the meeting of the British Association. As it is understood that British bot- 
anists will be well represented at that meeting large numbers of American 
botanists will doubtless take advantage of the opportunity to welcome their 
transatlantic friends. 
THE AppRESs of Dr. N. L. Britton as Vice President of Section G of sei 
A. A. A. S. at its Buffalo meeting was an admirable presentation of the his- 
tory and status of botanical gardens, made still more attractive by nuiney 
lantern slides. The GAZETTE would have been glad to publish the address 
in full, according to its usual custom, but Dr. Britton’s connection with the 
New York Botanic Garden made other publication seem desirable. 
A BEQUEST has been made to the Swedish Academy of Sciences to pre 
mote the study of the Brazilian flora. Every eight years it yields aod 
$5,500, which is applied in sending two Swedish botanists to Brazil for 4 
period of two years. One payment has already become available, and Dr. 
C. A. M. Lindman and Dr. G. 0. A. Malme undertook the first expedition 
(1892-4), exploring especially the Rio Grande, Paraguay and Matto nee 
The donor and originator of the enterprise was Dr. A. Regnell, a Swed! 
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physician, who lived for fifty years in Brazil, and made importan 
and studies of the phanerogamic flora. 
THE BUFFALO Boranic GARDEN was established in 1894) TP sg 
what was known as South Park. It contains 160 acres of finely situated an 
very diversified surface, and although planting began only last yea y 
already in cultivation nearly two thousand plants. It is the a 
arrange the plants in families, so far as conditions will permit. * 
Cowell is the very competent director, and Judge David F. Day! 
park commissioners, facts which augur well for the future of the 8? 
scientific establishment. It is due to Mr. Day’s influence t 
was established, and it is a fitting monument to this long time lover 
dent of plauts, 
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