616 The American Naturalist. [July, 
Kingston, arranging to arrive in Toronto Wednesday morning. The 
latter date will find nearly all of them here. Those who do not come 
via Quebec will turn up in Toronto at an earlier date probably. We 
expect a fairly large contingent, including some continental botanists 
of note.” 
It is expected, therefore, that this meeting will give unusual oppor- 
tunities for renewing or forming acquaintances among British and con- 
tinental botanists. By authority of the Council all foreign botanists 
present will be invited to sit as associate members of the Society and 
to read papers. This invitation will be addressed personally to all 
whose intention to eome Toronto is known, and will also be published 
in Nature and the Journal of Botany. 
A later announcement will contain information regarding R. R. 
rates, hotels, rooms for meeting, and other business to be submitted to 
the Society —C. R. Barnes, Secretary. 
Botany in the National Educational Association.—It is en- 
couraging to notice that in the great gatherings of teachers modern 
methods in science teaching are receiving attention. Last year in the 
Buffalo meeting of the National Educational Association, Professor 
Atkinson, of Cornell University, and Professor Spalding, of the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, discussed the educational value of botany. This 
year in the Milwaukee meeting Professor Barnes, of the University of 
Wisconsin, is to read a paper on “ What can the High School do with 
Botany?” It is to be hoped that the masters in botany will continue 
to take part in these discussions. The teachers in the secondary schools 
are quite generally ready to receive suggestions as to better methods 
when given by those who are entitled to speak with authority. 
CHARLES E. Bessy. 
The Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood’s Holl, Mass. 
—The tenth season of this useful laboratory is announced. The 
botanical instruction will cover a period of six weeks from July 6th, 
and will be conducted by Dr. Bradley M. Davis, of the University of 
Chicago. Two courses will be offered, viz., (1) on Elementary Botany, 
and (2) on the Morphology of the Algæ. In the first one week each 
will be given to Algæ, Fungi, Bryophytes and Pteridophytes, and two 
weeks to the Spermatophytes. There should be many students in at- 
tendance. The botanical advantages of Wood’s Holl should attract 
many of the teachers in the High Schools and smaller colleges. 
CHARLES E. BESSEY- 
