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States was held at Madison, Wisconsin, ]\Iarch 28-30, 1907. 

 Professor F. C. Newcombe of the University of Michigan, the 

 retiring president, read an address entitled "A Meed in Botanical 

 Science in America." Professor T. H. Macbride of the Uni- 

 versity of Iowa was elected president for the ensuing year. 



The eighteenth season of the biological laboratory of the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor, 

 Long Island, will begin on July 3 and will continue six weeks. 

 The courses in cryptogamic botany will be in charge of Professor 

 D. S. Johnson of Johns Hopkins University and Mr. H. H. 

 York of the University of Texas. Courses in plant ecology will 

 be given by Dr. E. X. Transeau of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington and Mr. W. S. Cooper of Johns Hopkins University. 



