296 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ocTOBER 1898 
cock, Kansas Agricultural College, Manhattan; Herbert Maule Richards, 
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; David G. Fairchild, Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; David M. Mottier, University of Indiana, 
Bloomington. 
THE MACMILLAN Co. announce for early publication two books by Pro- 
fessor L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University, one a 7ext-book of Agriculture for 
Schools, and the other a volume entitled 7he Evolution of our Native Frutts. 
Among their other volumes announced for the autumn is the one upon the 
Evolution of Plants by Dr. Douglas H. Campbell, of Leland Stanford Uni- 
versity, and a new volume of the Rural Science series on the Physiology of 
Plants by Dr. J. C. Arthur, of Purdue University. Welcome information to 
physiologists, also, is the statement that a translation of Verworn’s Ad/ge- 
meine Physiologie is in preparation by Dr. F.S. Lee, adjunct professor of 
physiology in Columbia University. 
THE STATE OF HAMBURG has just established at Freihafen a station for 
plant protection. Dr. C. Brick has been transferred from the Botanical 
Museum of Hamburg to the direction of this station, and Dr. L. Reh has 
been appointed zoologist. Occasion for the establishment of the station was 
afforded by necessary investigation of American fruits imported into Ham- 
burg in order to protect orchards against the San José scale. Besides this, 
the station will look after the introduction of injurious insects with the ship- 
ments of living plants from abroad. Its duties will include, also, the com- 
bating of plant diseases, the oversight of the schools of viticulture, and the 
inspection of vineyards and orchards in the Hamburg region, together with 
such questions as arise in the prosecution of this work. 
THE FIFTH annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America was 
held in the Rogers Building of the Massachusetts Institute of “Technology, 
Boston, August 19-20, 1898. The sessions of the society on the 1gth were 
devoted to business matters. ‘The literary sessions on the 2oth were presided 
over by president N. L. Britton. The address of the retiring president, 
John M. Coulter, in his absence, was read by Dr. B. M. Davis, and is pub- 
lished in full in this issue. The following papers were read before the soci- 
ety: Reducing division of the chromosomes in Avisema triphyl/um, by ting 
and tetrad formation during sporogenesis: Geo. F. Atkinson. Symbiotic 
saprophytism: D. 7. MacDougal. Sporogenesis in Trillium grandiflorum : 
Geo. F. Atkinson. Forest distribution in New Jersey and its relation to 
geology: Arthur Hollick. The centrosphere in Corallina: B. 4. Davts. 
Tetrad formation in Tsuga Canadensis: W.A. Murrill; presented by Geo. 
F. Atkinson. Notes on a Helianthus from Long Island: WV. L. Brition. 
Preliminary note on fertilization in the white pine: Miss M. C. Ferguson, 
presented by invitation of the Council. A fossil moss from the state of 
Washington: Mrs. E. G. Britton.—G. F. A. 
