The International Botanical and Horticultural Congress, Antwerp, 1885

Abstract

THE International Botanical and Horticultural Con-gress met at Antwerp on Sunday, August 2, in the hall of the Artistic, Literary and Scientific Club, the opening meeting being honoured by the presence of a good many ladies. The gathering was a representative one, and included many well-known European botanists and horticulturists. The Burgomaster of Antwerp opened the proceedings with a few appropriate remarks, and Prof. Ed. Morren, of Liege, having been made President of the Congress, took the chair, and a discussion was held on the flora of the Congo. After a short discussion the meeting adjourned to the Exhibition building, where the International Horticultural Show was being held, and which was formally opened at one o'clock. Many of the plants exhibited were of great interest, and the whole of the collections were nicely and artistically arranged. At five o'clock the Congress visited the Plantin Museum, the old printing office of the Plantin Moretus family. The Museum is full of interest, and as the printing office from which the works of Lobel, Dodonaeus, and Clusius issued, doubly interesting to all botanists. Through the kindness of the Burgomaster of Antwerp a sheet had been struck off for the members of the Congress, so that each was presented with a souvenir of the three great herbalists. In the evening there was a concert in the garden of the Exhibition in honour of the members of the Congress.