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at which the retiring President, Dr. Erwin F. Smith, delivered the 

 presidential address upon " Plant Pathology : A Retrospect and 

 Prospect." For the ensuing year, Professor V. M. Spalding was 

 elected President ; Professor Byron D. Halsted, Vice-President ; 

 and Professor W. F. Ganong, Secretary -Treasurer. 



The Society's committee on securing better reviews of botan- 

 ical literature reported upon the organization of the Association 

 Internationale des Botanistes and the purchase of the Botanisches 

 Centralblatt by this Association. The Centralblatt, under the 

 new management, is published by the firm of E. J. Brill, in 

 Leyden, with Dr. J. P. Lotsy as acting editor-in-chief. The 

 American representatives upon the editorial staff, with their 

 respective departments, are as follows : 



Phanerogams (systematic) and Chairman of the American 

 Board, Professor William Trelease, Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 St. Louis. 



Morphology, Professor D. H. Campbell, Leland Stanford Junior 

 University, California. 



Cytology, Dr. C. J. Chamberlain, University of Chicago. 



Physiology, Professor D. T. MacDougal, New York Botanical 

 Garden, Bronx Park, New York City. 



Algae, Dr. G. T. Moore, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Paleontology, Professor D. P. Penhallow, McGill University, 

 Montreal. 



Fungi, and Secretary of the American Board, Dr. Hermann von 

 Schrenk, Shaw School of Botany, St. Louis. 



In order to facilitate the work of the editors, it is urged that 

 authors send copies of their papers as soon as published to the 

 editor in charge of the department concerned. The annual fee 

 for membership in the Association is twenty-five shillings, all 

 members receiving the Centralblatt gratis. The subscription 

 price of the Centralblatt to non-members is twenty-eight shil- 

 lings. Reviews are to be published in English, French or 

 German. The first number of the Centralblatt issued by the 

 new board of editors bears the date of January 3. 



