1896.] Notes and News. 313 
that these may be printed for distribution in advance, it is requested 
that titles and abstracts of papers to be presented in Section G (Bot- 
any) be transmitted to the Secretary of the Section, Prof. Geo. F. At- 
kinson, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., not later than July 1, 1896. 
ose who intend reading papers will confer a great favor upon the 
Association by heeding this notice. 
THE SECOND ANNUAL meeting of the Botanical Society of America 
mill be held in Buffalo, New York, on Friday and Saturday, August 21 
and 22, 1896. The council will meet at 1:30 P. M. on Friday, and the 
Society will be called to order by the retiring president, Dr. William 
Trelease, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, at 3 P.M. Th 
President-elect, Dr. Chas. E. Bessey, Professor of Botany in the Uni- 
versity of Nebraska, will then take the chair. The afternoon session 
will be devoted to business. At the evening session the retiring pres- 
ident will deliver a public address on “Botanical Opportunity. The 
IN Bull. Herb. Boiss. (Feb.) J. Briquet, the new Curator of the De- 
kesster Herbarium and Wireaee of ‘the otanic Garden of Geneva, 
Fvesan account of the herbarium and garden. 
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dificult family ‘Euphorbaces wwhiths he contributed to De Candolle’s 
Todromus, : 
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P ' © general pelatlanahi of parasite to host, to Latah pelanitenay 
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