320 BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
ashes of Iowa, took charge of the hydroids collected. The 
Washington i is endeavoring to locate the richest field in the Sound for 
THE MEETING of the British Association for the Advanteaae 
held this year at Cambridge, August 17-24, was attended by an 
number of British botanists and by many foreign botanists as guest “4 
The president of the botanical section, Francis Darwin, disc 
and sympathetically, the hydrostatic and the statolith theories regarding 
ception of gravity by plants, expressing the conviction that, at the 
at least, the latter theory has most in its favor, but admitting that it 
proved. About sixty papers were presented, representing the whole 
botanical study. A group of papers on paleobotany showed the | 
fruitfulness of this line of investigation in England. Many of these papers’ 
illustrated by lantern slides, often of great beauty, and always interesting. 
group of papers by the ecologists showed by the careful anatomical and exp 
mental investigations, coupled with examinations of soil, drainage, and: 
gical conditions, that the thoroughness and accuracy which can 
any real value are recognized and applied in England and Scotland. 
also papers on mycology, morphology and* cytology, papiicet - 
One of the pleasantest features of this meeting was the dinn 
about seventy, in St. John’s College. The speeches by DARWI, 
Fuyu, Sewarp, and Wacerr were felicitous, and the cordial re 
to Fuyu, of Tokyo, was especially interesting at this time. As 
of the Association, I cannot refrain from expressing my h 
the gracious courtesy and hospitality which were extended to all 4 
