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FTER the delivery of the presidential address by Prof. Bayley Balfour, F.R.S., Dr. Lotsy (Hilbersum, near Arnhem, Holland) explained to the Section the aims and proposals of the International Association of Botanists, which was founded at Geneva in August. The Association has purchased the Botanisches Centralblatt, which it proposes to conduct as a first-class review of current botanical literature. Dr. Lotsy pointed out that an increased number of subscribers and shareholders is desired in order to ensure success. On Saturday the members of the Section were invited by the President to the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden, where they inspected the museum and garden and were afterwards entertained at lunch by Prof. and Mrs. Bayley Balfour. The excellence of the museum preparations was a striking feature, particularly the specimens and dissections preserved in spirit and labelled for teaching purposes. A very useful paper was read before the Section by Mr. Tagg, in which he gave an account of the methods employed by him with conspicuous success in the Edinburgh Museum in preserving and prepating plants for museum purposes.
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Botany at the British Association . Nature 64, 615–619 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064615a0
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