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the Scientific Directors, and Dr. Marshall A. Howe, Curator. 
In the jemt session symposium on “The Utility of the Species 
Concept,"’ Professor Parasia! discussed the subject “from the 
point of view of a morphologist.’’ In the General Section of the 
Botanical Society a pee he presented “The 
Evolution of the Hymenium and the Classification of the 
Uredineae.”” In the absence of Ispaugh, Dr. e 
cted as chairman of the Systematic Section of the Botanical 
Society of A read a pap nder the title of 
ER k Fossil Coralline Algae from Trinidad, I.’ 
Following the annual ‘Dinner for all Botanists,’’ held the 
ing Edward Hotel, How the unavoidable absence of 
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Soc of America, present 7 ommunication from t 
etiring aie i Britton’s communication consisted 
essentially o t wishes and his personal check for one 
thousand dollars mae ibe plied to any p the work of 
the Society” d ost necessary or desirable. Dr. an 
Toronto meetings was somewhat more than eighteen hundred, 
of whom two hundred or more were botanists. 
From the Office of Blister Rust Control of the Bureau 
Plant ae of the United States Department of gai 
control. The exhibit is installed in corner case (18) on the 
second floor of the museum building. 
A letter recently received from Dr. A. Pulle, professor of 
systematic botany in the University of Utrecht, Holla: on - 
us that the University has come into possession of a 
