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An address by Professor N. L. Britton on " Darwin's Work in 

 Botany" will form part of the Darwin exercises which are to be 

 held at the American Museum of Natural History by the New 

 York Academy of Sciences on February 1 2. 



Dr. James Fletcher, botanist and entomologist, died last 

 November in Montreal. He had served as botanist at the 

 Dominion Experimental Farms, and Dr. L. O. Howard has termed 

 him "the heart and soul of the Botanical Club of Canada." 



Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada, and President Diaz, 

 of Mexicoj have been asked by President Roosevelt to send rep- 

 resentatives to a national conference on the conservation of natu- 

 ral resources, which will be held in Washington, February 18, 

 1909. 



A prize of ^1000 is offered by the Naples Table Association 

 for promoting laboratory research by women. The prize is 

 awarded in April, 1909, for the third time ; it is given for the 

 best thesis, written by a woman, on a scientific subject and must 

 be based on independent research in biological, chemical, or 

 physical science. Further information will be given by Mrs. 

 A. D. Mead, 283 Wayland Avenue, Providence, R, I. 



The Baltimore meetings of Section G of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science alternated with those of the 

 Botanical Society of America. The vice-presidential address of 

 Professor Bessey was given Tuesday afternoon. An unusually 

 large number of papers — over sixty — was presented, and it was 

 necessary to run two parallel subsections of the section : one for 

 pathology and one for morphology, physiology, ecology, and 

 taxonomy. The officers for next year are : Professor D. P. Pen- 

 hallow, of McGill University, vice-president, and H. C. Cowles, 

 secretary. 



The Botanical Society of America together with the Society 

 for Plant Morphology and Physiology and the American Myco- 

 logical Society held several sessions in the P^astern High School 

 building. President W. F. Ganong presided. Papers by E, C. 

 Jeffrey and J. M. Coulter on vascular anatomy and its recent de- 

 velopment opened the first scientific program. The symposium 

 on ecology included the following papers : 



