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notes, discussions and the interchange of information on botani- 
cal subjects. We may take occasion to reproduce some of the 
items of general interest in subsequent issues. | 
The arrangements made by the local botanical club for the 
entertainment of the club of the association were unusually com- 
plete and enjoyable. On Thursday a reception was given to the 
1 club at the residence of Hon. David F. Day, which proved a 
| most delightful occasion. Members of the local club had taken 
uch pains to bring, in addition to the hot-house plants, many 
wild flowers and plants for the decoration of the rooms; and as 
illustrations of local rarities. 
tost of the botanists went to the falls and gorge of Niagara 
on Saturday, fair weather and ample time giving opportunity for 
. considerable botanizing intermixed with sight-seeing. Monday 
= alternoon a special excursion, by steamer, took the botanists to 
| the Canadian shore of Lake Erie and to interesting botanizing 
ground, 
Altogether the week was a delightful and profitable one; its 
success lay not only in the fact that the meetings of the club 
Were well attended, but that the several social gatherings were 
equally so. While the members learned about methods and 
things, they also gained a knowledge of their fellow-laborers, and 
imbibed an important element to progressive work—enthusiasm, 
oe The officers for the next year are Professor W. J. Beal, Agri- 
F cultural College, Mich., chairman, and Mrs. E. G. Britton, New 
York city, secretary. . 
Boranicar News.—Among the notable botanical papers which 
coe key to the genera of mosses recognized in Lesquereux and 
ames’ Manual of the mosses of North America, by Charles R. 
i ornia, by C-C: Parry (Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci.) ; 
ee banded-spore Trichias, by Geo. A. Rex (Jour. Mycology); 
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oa pine, by Etta A 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
olfactory impressions as such are received by the Arthropoda, 
have recently appeared, the following may be mentioned: Artifi- 
sue ORGAN OF SMELL IN ArTHROPODS.'—The question whether = 
Abstract by A, 5. Packard of a historical and critical study by Dr. K. Krepelin, ae 
taldruck aus dem Osterprogramm der Realschule des Johanneums. . Hamburg, eo 
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0ra, by William R. Dudley (Bulletin of the Cornell University). 
