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of our members are related by birth, descent, or intellectual 

 friendship are now at war 



Resolved, That we extend to the scientific men within these 

 nations the hope of an early and enduring peace, which will leave 

 the nations with no permanent cause of rancor towards each 

 [sic] other, and which will insure to each the glories of scientific 

 and humanitarian achievement in accordance with its own 

 conception of these ideals. 



The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has recently received a ship- 

 ment of rare cycadaceous plants from the east coast of Australia. 

 The plants left Rockhampton, New South Wales, on July 29, 

 1 9 14, and arrived in New York the middle of February. They 

 were twice unloaded en route, once at Sydney and again at 

 Port Said to release the ships for transporting troops to the war. 

 In spite of the long delay they appear to be in fairly healthy 

 condition and most of them are expected to live. The plants 

 are mature specimens of Macrozamia Moorei, which is all but 

 extinct, Cycas meadia, Macrozamia spiralis, and Bowenia serru- 

 lata. As living members of an extremely ancient group of 

 plants these specimens are very interesting additions to the 

 garden's collections. 



We regret to record the death of Dr. Charles E. Bessey, for 

 more than thirty years the professor of botany at the University 

 of Nebraska. He died at Lincoln on the evening of February 25. 

 "Dr. Bessey was born at Milton, Wayne County, Ohio, May 21, 

 1845, the son of Adnah and Margaret Ellenberger Bessey. He 

 was graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College in 1869, 

 and from 187 1 to 1873 and again from 1875 to 1876 he studied 

 with Dr. Asa Gray at Harvard. In 1898 Iowa College conferred 

 on him the honorary degree of LL.D. From 1870 to 1884 he 

 was professor of botany at Iowa Agricultural College and in 

 1882 acting president. In 1884 he went to the University of 

 Nebraska as professor of botany. Dr. Bessey was botanical 

 editor of the American Naturalist from 1880 to 1897, and had 

 been botanical editor of Science since 1897. He was a member 

 of the Nebraska Rural Life Commission from 191 1 to 1913, 



