320 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ocroBER 
AT THE CONCLUDING MEETING of the International Conference on Hybridi- 
zation and Plant Breeding the Veitch gold memorial medals were presented to 
Mr. W. Bateson, F.R.S., the president of the conference, Professor JOHANNSEN, 
Professor Witrmack, and Professor MAURICE DE VILMORIN. Banksian silver- 
gilt medals were awarded to Miss E. R. SAUNDERS, lecturer on botany at Newn- 
ham College, and Mr. R. H. Brrren, for eminent services to scientific and prac- 
tical horticulture —Nature. 
THe Borantcat Socrety or AMERICA will meet in New York City in Con- 
vocation week, beginning December 27, in affiliation with the A. A. A. S. This 
meeting, the first after the union of the three constituent societies, will be an 
important one, as questions of future policy are likely to be brought before the 
society. The sessions will be arranged, in cooperation with the officers of Section 
G, so as to avoid conflict. Members are requested to send to the Secretary 
(Witt1AM TRELEASE, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis), at the earliest 
possible date, titles of papers and information as to time and any special facilities 
required for their presentation. The total number of 1 t is 119. 
HE BOTANICAL SUBJECTS for 1907 and 1908 announced for the “Walker 
Prize,” offered annually by the Boston Society of Natural History, are as follows: 
For 1907: The structure and affinities of some fossil plant or group of fossil 
plants. The development of the gametophytes in any little known represen 
tative of the Coniferales. The anatomy and development of some order or group 
of the angiosperms. 
For 1908: An experimental study of inheritance in animals or plants. A 
comparative study of the effects of close-breeding and cross-breeding in animals 
or plants. A physiological study of one (or several) species of plants with respect 
to leaf variation. Fertilization and related phenomena in a phenogamous eee 
What proportion of a plant’s seasonal growth is represented in the winter bud: 
