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other botanical societies upon the subject of union of the botanical 

 societies of the country. 



The American Association for the Advancement of Science 

 held its fifty-third annual meeting at St. Louis, December 28, 

 190 , to January 2, 1904. Papers represented by thirty-seven 

 titles were read before Section G (Botany), the program occupy- 

 ing four half days. Mr. F. V. Coville, retiring chairman of Section 

 G, was absent and his vice-presidential address was accordingly 

 omitted. A committee consisting of Professor C. E. Bessey, 

 Dr. B. T. Galloway and Professor Conway MacMillan, was ap- 

 pointed to consider the movements now under way looking to 

 the preservation of the Calaveras groves. On Friday morning, 

 January i, the Section went as a body to visit the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden on the invitation of the director. Dr. William 

 Trelease. Among the officers. for the ensuing year. Professor 

 W. G. Farlow was elected president of the Association ; Pro- 

 fessor B. L. Robinson, vice-president of the Association and 

 chairman of Section G ; Professor F. E. Lloyd, secretary of 

 Section G. 



The tenth annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America 

 was held at St. Louis, December 28 to 30, 1903, under the 

 presidency of Professor C. R. Barnes. The address of the past- 

 president. Dr. B. T. Galloway, was entitled " What the Twentieth 

 Century Demands of 13otany ''; this address was published in full 

 in Scicficc for January i, 1904. In addition to the address, thir- 

 teen papers were presented. Officers were elected as follows : 

 President, Mr. F. V. Coville ; vice-president, Professor C. ¥.. 

 Bessey ; secretary. Dr. D. T. MacDougal ; treasurer, Dr. Arthur 

 HoUick ; councilors. Professor B. L. Robinson and Professor J. 

 M. Coulter. Grants of $150 to Dr. C. J. Chamberlin to aid a 

 study of the spermatogenesis, oogenesis, and fertilization of 

 Dioon and Ccratacaj/iin ; of $150 to Professor V. E. Lloyd to 

 aid a study of the comparative anatomy, tran.spiration and sto- 

 matal action of spino.sc and succulent plants, to be carried on at 

 the De.sert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution ; and 

 of S50 to Professor J. C. Arthur to assist in making drawings of 

 the Uredineae, were approved. 



