320 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 
Tue AMERICAN Myco.ocicar Society met in affiliation with the A. A. A.S. 
at Philadelphia, December 28 to 31. The following officers’ were elected: 
President, CHARLES H. Peck; Vice-President, F. S. EARLE; Secretary-treasurer, 
C. L. SHear; and the following committee on organization and relation to the 
‘other societies was appointed: C. L. SHEar, S. M. Tracy, and ROLAND 
THAXTER. The following program was presented: Suggestions for the study 
of dairy fungi, CHARLES THom; A new disease of the cultivated agave, GEORGE 
G. Hepccock; A study of North American Coleosporiaceae, and The termi- 
nology of the spore-structures in the Uredinales, J. C. ARTHUR; Classification of 
the Geoglossaceae, E. J. DuRAND; Generic characters of North American The- 
lephoraceae, E. A. Burt; Cultures of wood-inhabiting fungi, PERLEY SPAULDING; 
Two fungous parasites on mushrooms, and The genus Balansia in the United 
States, G. F. ATKINSON. 
Tue “Boranists of the Central States” met at the University of Chicago, 
March 31 and April x, in connection with the Central Branch of the American 
Society of Naturalists, with STANLEY CoutTeR, of Purdue University, as chair- 
man, and Cuas. F. Mritspavcu, of the Field Columbian Museum, as secretary. 
The following papers were read and discussed: 
C. F. Hortes, University of Illinois, The effect of starvation on the cells of 
the root tip; W. B. McCatium, University of Chicago, Regeneration and polarity 
in the higher plants; R. H. Ponp, Northwestern University, The endosperm 
enzyme of Phoenix dactylijera; E. W. Outve, University of Wisconsin, Nuclear 
‘and cell division in certain lower plants; E. O. JORDAN, University of 
Chicago. A rosette-forming micro-organism; F. M. Lyon, University of Chicago, 
Development of the megaspore coats of Selaginella; R. A. HARPER, University 
of Wisconsin, The nuclear fusion in the ascus, and alternation of generations ™ 
the Ascomycetes; A. H. Cuerstuan, University of Wisconsin, Sexual reproduc: 
tion in the rusts; B. M. Davis, University of Chicago, The sexual organs ot the 
Rhodophyceae and Uredinales; C. J. CHAMBERLAIN, University of Chicago, 
Apogamy and apospory in ferns; E. B. Simons, University of Chicago, The 
morphology and development of the conceptacle in Sargassum; J. B, Oven 
University of Wisconsin, The permanence of the chromosomes and their behavior 
in synapsis; C. F. MirtspaucH, Field Columbian Museum, Recent field-work 
in the Bahamas. 
A permanent organization of the society was effected, with Wi. 
LEASE, Missouri Botanic Garden, as president, and H. C. Cowles, 
of Chicago, as secretary-treasurer. 
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