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season (our summer) by grasses in sufficient quantities to support 
nemerous small herds of cattle. 
The most favorable point from which to begin an ecological study 
of this desert region would be Payta and the inland town Piura behind 
i, which can be reached by railway. Having made arrangements at 
Miura for mules and a guide, the towns of Pacasmayo and Salaverry 
vould not be too far apart to serve as centers for operation down the 
coast. The discomforts of travel through this desert, I understand, are 
tot such as should deter any enterprising botanist from exploring it. 
the expenses, including steamboat travel for which the charges are 
‘wenty pounds sterling from Panama to Callao, would be easily within. 
five dollars a day.—Davip G. FAIRCHILD. 
SECTION G (BOTANY), A. A. A. S., COLUMBUS MEETING. 
THE meeting of section G began on Monday, August 21, in Town- 
“end Hall of the Ohio State University, by a brief session for organi- 
~_— In the afternoon at four o’clock, in Botanical Hall, the vice 
President, Dr. CuariEes REID Barnes, delivered an address on Zhe 
Progress and problems of plant physiology. At the close of the address, 
i ot the section were voted to the speaker. 
eading of papers began on Tuesday, when the following were 
Presented in full, or in abstract, or by title: 
“alias The fertilization of Albugo blitt. 
Le “oped : The embryo sac of Leucocrinum montanum. 
; K: Notes on subterranean organs. 
Wt Bey, 
ith their cea Some monstrosities in spikelets of Eragostis and Setaria, 
in 
Cuar : 
AD ee E. Bessey : Studies of vegetation of the high Nebraska plains. 
7 — The tamarack swamp in Ohio. 
Byron eset The breeding of apples for the northwest plains. 
fetes = TED: Field experiments with “nitragin” and other germ 
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The duration of bacterial existence under trial 
y ignated Sudiivant Day, and was used to com- 
2 1883), two Ry S. Sullivant (died 1873) and Leo Lesquereux (died 
2 Through th a aa bryologists who were long residents of Columbus. 
* Initative and energy of Mrs. E. G. Britton and the 
