THE SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 
SOCIETY FOR PLANT MORPHOLOGY 
AND PHYSIOLOGY. 
ERWIN F. SMITH. 
THE second annual meeting of this society was held in New 
York, December 27-29, in affiliation with the American Soci- 
ety of Naturalists. All of the meetings were held at Scher- 
merhorn Hall, in the new and very commodious quarters of the 
Department of Botany of Columbia University. The Torrey 
Botanical Club gave a reception to the society and visiting bot- 
anists on Tuesday evening, and throughout the meetings the 
New York botanists did everything that was possible to make 
the occasion pleasant and profitable. Five papers listed on the 
programme were not read owing to the absence of the authors, 
some of whom were detained by sickness. There were, how- 
ever, more than enough papers to fill the allotted time, and the 
second meeting of the society closed as successfully as the first 
one. Professor Macfarlane was elected president for the ensu- 
ing year. The following additions were made to the member- 
ship of the society: Newcombe, Pollock, Underwood, Waite, 
Stewart, Halsted, Johnson. In addition to the papers ab- 
stracted below, Dr. W. G. Farlow, as retiring president, gave a 
very interesting address on Peculiarities of the Distribution of 
Marine Algz in North America, and the secretary of the soci- 
ety, Dr. W., F. Ganong, gave a ten-minute address before the 
whole body of naturalists on Advance in Methods of Teaching 
Botany. Dr. Ganong’s address was printed in Science, Jan- 
uary 20. It is to be hoped that the president's address may be 
printed in full. Two of the statements in it which impressed 
the writer most were: (1) the gaps which still exist in our 
knowledge of the marine algæ, especially in Floridian and, 
Pacific waters, and (2) the algal desert which extends along our 
eastern coast from New Jersey to South Carolina. The state- 
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