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success for the method. The processes have been patented by 

 the Department of Agriculture in the name of ])r. Moore in order 

 to protect them for the use of the pubhc. 



Invitations and prch'minary programs for the International 

 Botanical Congress, meeting in Vienna, June ii-iS, 1905, have 

 been distributed. A four weeks' excursion to Illyria has been 

 arranged to take place before the meeting of the Congress, and 

 after the Congress are scheduled excursions to the Austrian 

 coast, to the eastern Alps, and to the Lower Austrian mountains 

 and the valley of the Danube. Shorter excursions in the neigh- 

 borhood of Vienna have been arranged for the week of the Con- 

 gress. In addition to the discussion of the nomenclature question, 

 which is to be made a special feature of the convention, papers 

 bearing upon various aspects of botany are to be read, and there 

 will bean exhibition comprising three sections, as follows: (i) 

 Historical, (2) Modern Appliances for Research and Instruction, 

 (3) Horticultural. The American delegates, elected and, accord- 

 ing to the rules of Congress, entitled to vote in the deliberations 

 upon the nomenclature question, are, so far as we have learned, 

 the following : Members of the International Nomenclature Com- 

 mission, .V. L. Britton, E. L. Greene, B. L. Robinson, J. D. Smith; 

 Delegates from Section G, American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, C. R. Inirnes, H. C. Cozules, C. L. Shear ; from 

 the Botanical Society of America, /. C. Arthur ; from the Society 

 for Plant Morphology and Physiology, W. G, Farloiv ; from U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture, A. F. Wocds ; from the Torrey 

 Botanical Club, A^. L. Britton, L. M. Underwood ; from the New 

 York Academy of Sciences, L. M. Undenvood ; from the New 

 York l^otanical Garden, y. H. BarnJiart ; the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences, the New England Botanical Club, the Bos- 

 ton Society of Natural History, and the Vermont Botanical Club 

 will be represented by B. L. Rolunson. 



The program of the spring lectures at the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden, to be delivered in the lecture hall of the museum 

 building, Bronx Park, on Saturday afternoons, at 4:30 o'clock, is 

 as follows : 



