Anthocerotales. Twenty families are listed for the Jungerman- 

 niales, including forty-six genera ; the Marchantiales include three 

 families and eight genera, while two genera in a single family are 

 taken up in the Anthocerotales. 



In each case there are genus descriptions, which give the repro- 

 ductive as well as the vegetative features. The derivation of the 

 name is also made clear, and synonyms with references are listed. 

 In the very adequate species descriptions the gross features as well 

 as the more obvious microscopic characters are portrayed, together 

 with data on distribution, habitat, and additional information of 

 interest. 



Every species described is illustrated with clear line drawings, 

 showing a habit sketch magnified three times and, for the most 

 part, dorsal and ventral views, cellular features, spores, elaters, etc., 

 wherever these are diagnostic or characteristic. 



The book is also equipped with a glossary, an appendix ex- 

 plaining species names, and an extensive bibliography. 



The author has prepared a volume that is at once scholarly and 

 usable and one that merits appreciation by students of the liver- 

 worts. 



Remarks made at the annual meeting of the Torrey Club by 

 Dr. B. O. Dodge on his election as President of the Club 



I am reminded this evening by the results of the election just 

 reported, of an incident that occurred soon after we first came to 

 New York some thirty years ago now. One day Professor Curtis, 

 who was then acting head of the Department of Botany at Columbia, 

 was telling me about the Torrey Botanical Club. He took me into 

 the room next to his office where the publications of the Torrey 

 Club were stored. He showed me volumes of the Memoirs, 

 especially Salmon's Monograph of the Ersiphaceae and Griffith's 

 Monograph of the Sordariaceae and Hazen's Ulothricaceae. He 

 also showed me some volumes of Torreya. He seemed to take 

 great pride in the Bulletin, however. He said, "You know our 

 Bulletin is one of the oldest (he may have said the oldest) botanical 

 Journals in America." It is a fact, our Clul) is the oldest and the 

 largest botanical organization in America that holds regular monthly 



