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hands of the whole matter by a statement in the preface that the 

 names are mostly nomina nuda, anri consequently disdains any 

 responsibility for trying "to shake the very foundations of 

 botanic priority." If nomina nuda can be construed to mean 

 names accompanied by from three to six lines of description, 

 Mr. Rhoads is right. But Muhlenberg's catalog pretty effec- 

 tually disposes of such a claim. On this score the erlitor has 

 done botanical science either a great service or a great injury in 

 unearthing a book that has almost inflammable possibilities. 



N. T. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



The Botanical Society of America will hold its eleventh annual 

 meeting at New York City during the week beginning December 

 25, 1916, in affiliation with the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, the American Society of Naturalists, 

 the American Phytopathological Society, and the Ecological 

 .Society of America, and under the auspices of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, New York University, the College of the City of New York, 

 the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the other 

 scientific and educational institutions of the city. Members of 

 the Torrey club are invited to attend any of the meetings sche- 

 duled below. The hotel headquarters of the Society will be the 

 Hotel McAlpin, Broadway at 34th St. The hotel headquarters 

 of the Ecological Society of America will be at the Hotel Belmont. 



Program of Meetings 



Tuesday, December 26. 

 8:00 p. m. (Address of the retiring president of the American 



Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. 



Wm. W. Campbell, director of the Lick Observatory. 



Reception to the members of the A. A. A. S., at the 



American Museum of Natural History.) 

 Wednesday, December 27. 

 10:00 a. m. Simultaneous scientific sessions of the society at 



large, for papers on cytology, embryology-, mor- 



