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models and preparations for elucidating the anatomical and morphological 
features. ...:. . ” This exhibit shows clearly how thorough and wise the 
courses are. The equipment puts to shame all of our high schools and 
nine-tenths of our colleges. 
The unique mechanical balances of NEMETz; the living algal cultures 
of the Biological Station in Vienna; the apparatus and methods of the 
imperial Seed-control Station in Vienna, and of the Imperial Forestry 
Station in Mariabrunn; and the display of pure cultures of fungi by the 
bureau established for this purpose by the Association Internationale des 
Botanistes (in Utrecht, in charge of Professor F. A. F. C, WENT) deserve 
special mention. The attempt of the Association to secure an exhibit of 
separates and works of many writers was practically a failure, only eleven 
sending papers. As a whole the exhibition was highly interesting and 
useful. 
The third meeting of the Freie Vereinigung der Systematischen Botani- 
ker und Pflanzengeographen also occurred on Wednesday, at which, in 
addition to a considerable list of papers, there was held a discussion on the 
introduction of a uniform nomenclature in phytogeography. 
On Friday the agricultural botanists came together in the imperial 
Station for seed-control, in the Prater. No papers were read, but discus- 
sions were held on several.topics, such as: methods of investigating sugar- 
beet seeds; weighing methods in determinations of germinative capacity; 
organization in seed-control stations; culture and study of barley; etc. 
The actions on nomenclature are too extensive to summarize, and only 
a few of the more important decisions can be mentioned here. The word 
laws is to disappear, rules and recommendations taking its place. The 
tules for nomenclature of ‘cellular cryptogams,” 7. e., the Bryophyta and 
Thallophyta, are remanded to a special commission of specialists, which 
is to present recommendations to the Congress of 1910, to be held at Brus- 
sels. In like manner a report on rules for the nomenclature of fossil plants 
is to be made by a Commission of paleobotanists. The word ordo (order) 
displaces cohors, recommended by the Commission for a group of families; 
but the American proposition to substitute phylum for divisio was lost. 
The date 1753 Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. 1. was adopted by a vote of 150 to 19. 
A vote on an article permitting laxity in the application of the rule of 
Priority to generic names, and providing for a list of genera to be main- 
tained en tous cds, Was 133 yeas, 36 nays. Later, Harms’s list of such 
genera (400 and over) was adopted by a vote of 118 to 37. This list had 
been referred to a committee composed of BONNET, Harms, BRITTON, 
RAIN, and BRIQUET, and was recommended (by a majority) for adoption. 
