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At the annual meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club, on 

 January 8, the officers of the preceding year were reelected, and 

 an additional associate editor was added to the editorial staff 

 An amendment was introduced to increase the number of asso- 

 ciate editors to eight instead of seven. 



A reception to visiting botanists was given at Schermerhorn 

 Hall on Wednesday evening, December 20, 1906, by the Torrey 

 Botanical Club. It was largely attended and highly successful. 



The Board of Managers of the New York Botanical Garden 

 entertained at luncheon the botanists attending the session of the 

 Botanical Society of America held in the Museum of the Garden 

 on Saturday, December 29, 1906. 



The American Association for the Advancement of Science 

 held its fifty-seventh meeting in New York City, December 27, 

 1906, to January 2, 1907. As has been the custom in late years, 

 various affiliated scientific societies held sessions in the same city 

 during the same week. Section G (botany) met in Schemerhorn 

 Hall, Columbia University, on Thursday afternoon, December 2^ , 

 on Friday morning, and on Monday, with the vice-president. Dr. 

 D. T. MacDougal, in the chair. Dr, Tracy E. Hazen acted as 

 secretary in the absence of Professor F. E. Lloyd. The Friday 

 morning session was a joint one of Sections F (zoology) and G, 

 devoted to the discussion of heredity. In the absence of the 

 retiring chairman, Dr. Envin F. Smith, his vice-presidential ad- 

 dress was omitted. Professor Charles E. Bessey was elected 

 chairman of Section G for the next meeting. About 125 botan- 

 ists were in attendance at the sessions of the Section and of the 

 affiiliated societies. 



The Botanical Society of America met in New York City, De- 

 cember 27—31, 1906. The federation of the three societies, the 

 Botanical Society of America, the American Mycological Society, 

 and the Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology, was 

 effected at the first session on Thursday, December 27. The 

 president, Professor F. S. Earle, acted as chairman during the first 

 day ; as he was not able to be present at the later sessions, the 

 chair was occupied by the vice-president. Professor Frederic E. 

 Clements. Meetings for the readings of scientific papers were 



