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the degree of Ph.B. in 1873, that of A.M. in 1893 from that 

 universit\^ He studied botany at Columbia in 1872 and at 

 Har\^ard Summer School in 1875, 1876, and 1879. In 1866 he 

 was an assistant in chemistr\^ at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technolog}^ and from 1867-68 he was the botanist of the United 

 States geological sur^-ey of the fortieth parallel. During the 

 latter year he became Deputy Secretar^^ of the State of Rhode 

 Island, and from 1869—71 he ser\'ed as assistant librarian of the 

 Providence Athenaeum. He taught botany in private schools in 

 Providence, and in 1877 he became an instructor at Brown. 

 From 1881-1906 he ser\^ed as professor of botany at tlfe same 

 universit^^ and since the latter date he has been professor 

 emeritus. Professor Bailey was a member of the second board 

 of visitors to the United States Military' Academy in 1896, and 

 in 1902 a delegate to the centennial of the United States Military 

 Academy. He was a director of the Providence Athenaeum, 

 1900-3; a member of the International Society of Botanists, 

 the New England Botanical Club, the Rhode Island Horti- 

 cultural Society, the Boston and Newport Societies of Natural 

 History, the Torrey Botanical Club, the New York Micro- 

 scopical Society, Phi Beta Kappa, having been president of the 

 Rhode Island Alpha, 1903-5, Sigma Xi, president of Brown 

 chapter, 1903-4. He was also a member of the G. A. R., the 

 Sons of the Revolution, the Society of American Wars, the 

 Council of the Agassiz Association, and an honorary member of 

 the Rhode Island Medical Society." Professor Bailey was born 

 at West Point, N. Y., on February 22, 1843. He was the author 

 of many books and articles. 



The "second circular" of the Fourth International Botanical 

 Congress, to be held in London in 191 5, has appeared. It is 

 taken up by a discussion of the nomenclature questions to be 

 brought up at the Congress. Among these are to fix the starting 

 point for the nomenclature of Schizomycetes, Schizophyceae 

 (excepting Nostocaceae) , Flagellatae and Bacillariaceae; and the 

 compilation of lists of "genera conservanda" for fungi, lichens, 

 Bryophyta, and of a double list of such genera for paleobotanists. 

 After bewailing the fact that nomenclature has occupied most 



