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gress occupied itself: (1) with the presentation and discussion of 
technical scientific communications, embodying the results of re- 
cent investigations, to which I contributed an account of the 
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and M. A. Tarleton; (2) with ae of general procedure, in- 
cluding the eset ture of plant geography, the recording o 
ternational Congress of Zoology to consider this subject, and a 
requests the committee of organization of the next Botanic: 
ongress to sees as with Zoologists and ae 
looking toward the same end ; (3) visits to the Jardin des Plantes 
nd the ee Museum, Library and Herbarium, under the 
guidance of MM. Bureau and Cornu ; to the immense private 
herbaria of: M. ae and M. Drake del Castillo ; to the great 
garden and arbor of M. Maurice de Vilmorin and to the 
immense ra ieay establishment of Vilmorin Andrieux & Co. 
under the guidance of Mr. Phillippe de Vilmorin. The hos- 
pitality of the French to eae visitors was most endauing and 
the social functions arranged by M. Drake a Castillo, M. Rouy 
M. Maurice and Phillippe de Vilmorin, M. de Seynes and by 
the Botanical and Mycological Societies a France provided most 
valuable and enjoyable opportunities for forming the personal 
acquaintance of the many distinguished men in attendance. 
Resolutions introduced by me and unanimously adopted ac- 
cepted the invitation of Freiherr Richard von Wettstein and the 
Austrian Government to hold the next international Congress of 
Botany in Vienna and fixed the date 1905, and it was further re- 
seven that said Congress should be composed of duly accredited 
delegates from gardens, museums, universities, societies and 
academies. I saw all the more important botanical and horti- 
cultural exhibits at the Exposition and many of them were 
