BRIEFER ARTICLES. 
THE VIENNA CONGRESS. 
THE sECOND International Botanical Congress was held at Vienna, 
June 11-18, 1905, and was highly successful in every way. There was a 
large and unusually representative attendance, the list of members con- 
taining about 600 names. Deducting ladies registered with husbands or 
relatives, and the considerable number of amateurs from Vienna and the 
neighborhood, it is certainly safe to say that there were present nearly 
400 professional botanists. Of that number nearly one-half would be 
known by name to any one familiar with botanical literature, and among 
these were many whose reputation is world-wide. Naturally Austria 
was most numerously represented, but Germany sent a large contingent, 
and nearly all the European countries were represented, except perhaps 
those of the Iberian and the lower Balkan peninsulas. The English were 
few—a half dozen at most. Sixteen American botanists were present: 
ARTHUR, ATKINSON, BARNES, BARNHART, BLAKESLEE, Britton (Mr. 
and Mrs.), Brown, CAMPBELL, CovILLE, DuGGAR, ROBINSON, SHEAR, 
TRELEASE, UNDERWOOD, and Woops. But American societies were 
sadly negligent, and many were unrepresented which might have delegated 
authority to some of the sixteen. 
The Congress was opened in the Festsaal of the University by WIESNER, 
with addresses of welcome by the minister of agriculture, speaking for the 
emperor; by the burgomeister, for the city; and by the rector for the 
university. BONNET, secretary of the Paris Congress, gave a historical 
statement of the organization of the present congress, and REINKE (Kiel) 
delivered an address on Hypothese, Voraussetzungen, Probleme in der 
In the afternoon the Nomenclature Conference organized in the hall 
of the Museum in the Botanical Garden by electing as president FLA- 
HAULT; as vice-presidents RENDLE and Mez; and three secretaries; 
received the report of the standing committees and of the Rapporteur 
général (BriQuEt); and adopted rules of procedure. The report of the 
Commission was presented as a quarto of 160 pages, having the text of 
the code of 1867 in the first column, the new formal proposals of various 
bodies in the second, notes by the Rapporteur in the third, and the text 
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