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given on Saturday afternoons. The audience numbered about 
Be 
Proceeding to Geneva, via Dijon, a visit was made to the new 
botanical garden and museum under the direction of Dr. John 
Briquet, recently established on a plot of ground on the shore of 
Lake Geneva, presented to the city by one of its public-spirited 
citizens. Dr. Briquet, was absent in Vienna, but Dr. Hoch- 
reutiner, his assistant, who had traveled from New York with us 
on his way home from Java, gave me all needed assistance. The 
institution is readily accessible ae train or boat. Special atten- 
tion has here been given to the bringing together and display of 
herbaceous perennials penne. of the different mountain 
systems of central Europe, planted out in ne and to the 
establishment of other Saeeeee groups. e€ mountain 
plants were largely in bloom at the time of our visit, poe a 
great many species not ena seen by me, and presented 
elegant masses of form and color. There is also a very extensive 
systematic collection of herbaceous plants, and a commencement 
has been made in planting shrubs and trees. The aaa 
of this institution are still at the old site in the city of Gen 
A handsome and well-equipped museum building on i 
built here by the city, primarily for housing the Delessert 
Herbarium and other scientific collections of the garden, which 
I consulted while there for information concerning certain types 
of American s 
I also aed a herbarium of M. Casimir “ Candolle at 
Geneva, and he sed eee me to specimens 
eached Vienna June 10 and found a very distinguished 
Pee of ee ewe there. The sessions of the 
Congress commenced promptly the next morning, with addresses 
of welcome by civil and scientific officials of the Austrian govern- 
ment, followed by the election of Professor Wiesner of the 
Vienna University as president of the Congress, and of a number 
of vice-presidents, in which category I had the honor to be 
included 
The meetings were then divided into two series, (1) those of 
the general body, devoted mainly to the reading of scientific 
