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long usage, which are to be retained though contrary to the strict 
law of priority. The conference also held that a name once given, 
though inappropriate or even misleading, must stand. 
Lectures by leading botanists were a feature of the meeting. 
Thus Professor Goebel dealt with “ Regeneration ” and Dr. D. H. 
Scott with “ The Fern-like Seed-Plants of the Carboniferous 
Flora.” 
There was a very fine Botanical Exhibition in the Orangery of 
the Imperial Palace at Schonbrunn, just outside the city. This 
consisted of all kinds of objects connected with Botany, conspicuous 
among which were living cultures of Algae from the Adriatic and 
elsewhere. 
The social side of the meeting was extremely well organised. 
The Emperor had invited the principle botanists to a court- 
reception, but this unfortunately had to be cancelled owing to the 
death of the Archduke Joseph. Every evening there was an 
expedition or entertainment of some kind : one to the Kahlenberg, 
from which there is a splendid view of the whole town ; an 
academical feast in the Hutteldorfer Brauerei, with songs by 
students ; one in the Prater with fine choral singing and an 
excellent amateur comic entertainment, after which there was 
dancing. 
Professor Suess gave a lunch-party at the Grand Hotel, anti 
Frau von Gerold, the President of the Damencomite which looked 
after the interests of the lady-visitors, entertained some of the 
members at her country house. The Damencomite arranged a full 
programme of sight-seeing for the ladies, and entertained them all 
to a “Jause” (an Austrian form of tea party) in the Stadtpark. 
On the last day there was an expedition to the Schneeberg, 
6810 feet, where some good botanising was done, and the members 
dined together at the hotel near the summit. During the railway 
journey back the members walked from one carriage to another 
saying goodbye. 
Altogether the arrangements of those responsible for the social 
side of the gathering were extremely successful, particularly in 
enabling the members to get to know one another personally. 
In response to an invitation from the Belgian Government, 
conveyed by Professor Errera, Brussels was selected as the place 
of meeting for the next Congress, to be held in 1910. 
We are indebted to Dr. A. B. Rendle and to Mrs. D. H. Scott 
for the information contained in this brief account of the Congress. 
REVIEW. 
“ Pflanzenphysiologie,” Vol. II., Part 2; pp. 353-986, 
By Dr. W. Pfeffer, Engelmann. Leipzig, 1904. 
With this part, the new edition of Professor Pfeffer’s well- 
known Handbook is brought to a conclusion. As the author 
explains, the completion of the second volume, the first part of which 
