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Representatives of the Torrey Club enjoyed the generous hos- 

 pitality of the Syracuse Botanical Club on the Fourth of July. 

 A party of forty spent the day in the vicinity of the " green 

 lakes," near Jamesville, N. Y. The following day was chiefly 

 devoted to collecting in the saline formation about Onondaga 

 Lake. 



" The Home Aquarium and how to care for it " is the title of 

 an illustrated octavo work of 213 pages written by Mr. Eugene 

 Smith and recently published by E. P. Dutton & Co., of New 

 York. The book will prove of service in the determination as 

 well as in the cultivation of some of the common aquatic plants 

 and animals. 



We learn from Science that Dr. E. C. Jeffrey, instructor in the 

 University of Toronto, has been appointed assistant professor of 

 vegetable histology and general morphology in Harvard Uni- 

 versity ; also that Professor F. A. Waugh, of the University of 

 Vermont, has been called to the chair of horticulture in the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, Mass. 



The recent meeting of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science at Pittsburg was of unusual interest to 

 botanists. The association now includes about 3,500 members, 

 and 320 papers were read at the sessions, of which 79 were 

 purely botanical, while many other titles were presented before 

 various sections and in the meeting of various affiliated societies, 

 the subject matter of which lay chiefly in botany. The vice- 

 presidential address by Dr. B. T. Galloway on "Applied Botany, 

 Retrospective and Prospective" was a masterly presentation of 

 the practical applications made of botanical knowledge and pre- 

 sented a clear outline of the phases of the subjects from which 

 direct useful results may be expected. Mr. F. V. Coville was 

 elected chairman of Section G for the coming meeting at Wash- 

 ington during the convocation week, and Dr. C. J. Chamberlain 

 secretary. Twenty-three papers were read at the session of the 

 Botanical Club, and the committee on nomenclature held numer- 



