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CONFERENCE NOTES FOR NOVEMBER AND 
DECEM 
The first confererice during the autumn of the Scientific Staff 
and Registered Students of the New York Botanical Garden 
was held in the nia of the museum building on the after- 
vem 
Under the title ae “Some Fossil Calcareous Algae,’’ Dr. 
Marshall A. Howe exhibited and discussed some fossil alge of 
collected by D. F. MacDonald an . W. Vaughan of the 
United States Geological Survey in 1911. The one from the 
Pleistocene seemed to the speaker to be identical in genus and 
species with a living plant found by him in the sea about three 
to be ee es the United States Cesloneal Sur 
Dr. t then presented results of studies a variations 
in vewtiauve progeny and seed progeny of Coleus. Plants were 
exhibited showing types of color patterns and leaf shape. In 
variations among the members of the seed progeny. It is 
planned to publish a detailed account of these experiments soon. 
At the December Conference, Professor R. A. Harper pre 
The characters discussed pertain to the black, yellow and flinty 
or sugary conditions of the seed. Facts were presented showing 
