BOTANY. 
Botany at the A. A. A. S.— The recent meeting of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, was notable in the activity 
of the botanical part of the section of Biology. The attendance of 
working botanists was unusually large, although the faces of many well 
known men were missed in the meetings. Among those present may 
be mentioned : Professor J. C. Arthur, of Purdue University ; Dr. T. 
F. Allen, of New York City; Professor T. J. Burrill, of the University 
of Illinois ; Professor W. J. Beal, of the Michigan Agricultural College ; 
Professor N. L. Britton, of Columbia College; Professor I). H. 
Campbell, of the University of Indiana; David F.Day, of Buffalo; 
Professor W. M. Dudley, of Cornell University; Professor C;. L. 
Goodale, of Harvard University ; B. T. Galloway, of the Botanical 
Division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture ; Professor B. D. 
Halsted, of Rutgers College; Professor J. F. James, of the U. S. 
Geological Survey; Professor W. R. Lazenby, of the University of 
Ohio ; Thomas Meehan, of Germantown, Pa. ; John Macoun, of the 
Canadian Geological Survey; Professor T. H. McBride, of the Uni- 
versity of Iowa ; and Professor F. L. Scribner, of the University of 
In the meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural 
Science, which preceded the meeting of the Association, several papers 
were read upon botanical subjects, as follows : 
J. C. Arthur.— What is Common Wheat Rust ? 
W. J. Beal.— A Study of Birdseye Maple. 
C. E. Bessey.— The Gra.ss Problem in Nebraska. 
T. J. Burrill.— A Bacterial Disease of Indian Corn. 
B. D. Halsted.— The Cranberry Gall Fungus. 
B. D. Halsted— Our Worst Weeds. 
The Botanical Club of the Association, under the management of its 
Chairman, Professor Burrill, and Secretary, Professor Campbell, held 
meetmgs every morning, at nine o'clock, in the room assigned to 
Section F, and took part in a most enjoyable excursion, on Thursdav, 
to Scarborough Heights, on the shore of Lake Ontario, in quest of rare 
specimens. 
In the sessions notelets were read upon The Fertilization of Hypericum 
canadense, and The Cleistogamy of Cerastium nutans, bv Thomas Mee- 
han ; The Pollen of Pontederia cordata, and The Explosive pods of 
the Wild Bean, by B. D. Halsted; Certain Additions to the North 
