CURRENT. LITERATURE. 
BOOK REVIEWS. 
The Vienna Congress. 
HE PROCEEDINGS of the Congress of 1905 have recently appeared from 
the press of FiscHer (Jena), apparently published by the Local Committee.* 
At the same time there is published from the same house a volume containing the 
“scientific results’? of the Congress as Publications scientifiques de Association 
internationale des botanistes.2 The volumes have been distributed gratuitously to 
members of the Congress, and are presumably for sale by the publisher; but 
the price is not stated. 
The volume of Verhandlungen contains an account of the organization of 
the Congress and its daily proceedings in general sessions; the various excursions 
before and after the meetings; the botanical ner (illustrated); but the 
greater part of the space (182 out of 262 pages) is devoted to an account of the 
meetings of the section for the revision of the laws of nomenclature. Here o 
finds not merely the procés verbal, but a list of the delegates and the institutions 
represented, an account of the discussions based on stenographic and other 
notes, and the votes on each question. Then follows, with double pagination, 
evidently for separate publication: (1) a concordance of the adopted rules with 
the Paris Code; (2) the revised code for the vascular plants, printed in French, 
the strict rule of priority; and (4) a thorough analytical index. This section of 
the report shows the painstaking care of M. JoHN Brique, the gener al secretary, 
to whose devotion, skill, and knowledge so much of the success of the nomen- 
clature commission was due. 
t Verhandlungen des eee botanischen Kongresses in Wien 1905. 
nique & Vienne (Autriche) 1905. Heraus- 
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4 Werrsrern und J. Wiesner als Priasidenten un 
_ Sekretiir. — von J. Briquet (Genf), A. GINZBERGER, V. SCHIFF 
v. Wenyzret, R. v. WeErTsTEIN und A. ZAHLBRUCKNER (Wein). Imp. pond pp. 
vi+ 262. i 7. Jena: G. Fischer. 1906. 
. Publications scientifiques de l’Association internationale des botanistes. 
von WETTSTEIN und J. WresNer als Prisidenten und 
_ Sekretir. Redigiert von P. J. Lorsy, General-Sekretar des Ass. Int. des Bot. Imp. 
-8vo. pp. vit 446. pls. 3. map 1. figs. 58. Jena : G. Fischer. 1906. 
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