1904] NEWS ag 
American range of the Cycadofilices. A paper entitled The importance of the 
physiographic standpoint in plant geography, by H. C. Cowxes, was read by 
title. It was greatly regretted that Prof. FLAHAULT, who was to have read a 
paper entitled La cartographie de géographie botanique, was detained in France 
illness. The biogeographical sessions were well attended, although there 
were few visiting botanists present, and the papers excited lively discussions. 
Tae INTERNATIONAL Concress of Arts and Science he'd at St. Louis, Septem- 
ber 19-26, secured the attendance of g I f scientifi , both Americ 
id foreign. It is safe to say that no more distin guished body of scholars has ever 
been gathered on this continent, or probably on any other. The formal addresses 
by botanists were as follows: JoHN MERLE Covtter, University of Chicago, 
Development of mor phological conceptions; HuGO DE VRIES, University of Amster- 
dam, Fundamental conceptions of evolution; FREDERICK O. Bower, University of 
Glasgow, The relation of the axis to the leaj in vascular plants; Karu F. GorBet, 
University of Munich, Die Grundprobleme der heutigen Pflanzenmorphologie; 
Juurus Wresyer, University of Vienna, Die Entwickelung der Pflanzenphysiologie 
wiler dem Einflusse anderer Wissenschaften; BENJAMIN M. Duccar, University 
of Missouri, Present problems of plant physiology; JosrpH C. ARTHUR, Purdue 
University, The history and scope of plant pathology; Merton B. Watre, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, Vegetable pathology as an economic science; OSKAR 
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heutigen Wissenschaft; Benjamin L. Rosrnson, Harvard University, Problems 
mecology. These addresses will be published in the volumes of Proceedings of the 
sm Short (ten-minute) papers were read by J. M. Courter, M orphology 
ya taxijolia; J. A. Harris, The importance of the investigation of seedling 
Mages; C. E. Bessey, Distribution of trees in Nebraska. 
THE MARINE STATION of the University of Washington has completed a suc- 
cessful summer’ 
Sound. Th & work among the San Juan islands in the northern part of Puget 
amon ‘th = object of the work was to determine the marine life of the Sound 
: f Islands, and to begin the study of the distribution of species on the sea 
Trevor ae ecological point of view. The station was in charge of Professor 
Neal (zoology) and Dr. T. C. Frye (botany). The party included 
€ teachers of biology in the colleges, normal schools, and large 
€ state, as well as a number from adjacent ones. Headquarters 
at Friday Harbor, where house room was secured for laboratories, 
on the ki Ce hile the party lived in tents pitched in the dense coniferous forests 
ith wire ee © party had at its disposal a naphtha launch, and a scow fitted 
Staits and in1,, windlass, dredges, and nets, by means of which the bottom in the 
Ons were made of algae, shells, and hydroids, and valuable data 
Te secured : 
®oncerning their distribution. Professor Cuttinc, of the State 
