THE SOCIETY FOR PLANT MORPHOLOGY AND 
PHYSIOLOGY—COLUMBIA MEETING. 
THE second annual meeting of the Society for Plant Mor- 
phology and Physiology was held, along with the American 
Society of Naturalists and the affiliated societies, at Columbia 
University, Tuesday to Friday, December 27 to 30, 1898. On 
Tuesday evening a reception was tendered to the members of 
the society and Visiting botanists by the Torrey Botanical Club, 
in the rooms of the Department of Botany of the University. 
The society joined with the other societies in the annual discus- 
sion on Thursday afternoon (upon advances in methods of 
teaching), and in the annual dinner of the affiliated societies of 
Thursday evening. On Friday morning an excursion was made 
to the New York Botanical Garden, where the grounds and 
buildings were shown by the director, Dr. N. L. Britton. At the 
business sessions of the society the following officers were elected 
for the ensuing year: president, J. M. Macfarlane; vice presi 
dents, G. F. Atkinson and D. P. Penhallow; secretary, W. F. 
Ganong. The following new members were elected: F. C. Stewart 
C. O. Townsend, F, C. Newcombe, B. D. Halsted, J. B. Pollock 
D.S. Johnson, L. M. Underwood, M. B. Waite. The sessions 
for the reading of papers were presided over by the president 
Dr. W. G. Farlow. The presidential address, on “ Peculiarities: 
of the Distribution of Marine Algze in North America,” bs 
delivered at 4:00 p.m., on Thursday. It is hoped that it will 
soon be published in full, The following papers were presented 
the abstracts having been prepared in every case by the authors. 
W. F. Ganone, Secretary: 
Some peculiar morphological structures in Paulownia imperial 
Joun W. FIARSHBERGER, University of Pennsylvania —? aul 
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