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Survey. A letter from Mr. Arnold 

 Hague was read, as also a telegram 

 from Mr. Henry Gannett. Mr. Gif- 

 ford Pinchot paid a tribute to Mr. 

 Walcott in relation to the forestry 

 work of the government. The closing 

 address was by the Hon. James R. 

 Garfield, secretary of the interior. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 

 We regret to record the deaths of 

 Professor W. H. Bakhus-Rooseboom, 

 professor of physical chemistry at 

 Amsterdam; of M. Marcel Bertrand, 

 professor of geology in the Paris 

 School of Mines, and of Professor 

 Ernst von Bergmann, the distinguished 

 German surgeon. 



Lord Lister celebrated his eightieth 

 birthday on April 4, on which occasion 

 it was announced that a collected edi- 

 tion of his scientific papers would be 

 published. — The London Society of 

 Dyes and Colors has founded in honor 

 of Sir William Pcrkin a Perkin medal 

 to be conferred for scientific and in- 

 dustrial work connected with the dye- 

 ing industries. — Professor George T. 

 Ladd, who recently retired from the 

 active duties of the chair of phi- 

 losophy at Yale University, has gone 

 from Japan to Korea, at the invitation 

 of Marquis Ito, in the interest of the 

 educational development of the coun- 

 try. — The Prussian ministry of educa- 

 tion has appointed Professor Felix 

 Adler as Theodore Roosevelt professor 

 in the University of Berlin for the 

 year 1908-09, upon the nomination of 

 the trustees of Columbia University, 

 where he holds the chair of political 

 and social ethics. 



The new buildings of the Carnegie 

 Institute at Pittsburg were dedicated 

 with imposing ceremonies on April 11, 

 in the presence of a large number of 

 invited guests from Europe and the 

 United States. The ceremonies were 

 extended through three days. Previous 

 to the dedication it was announced 

 that Mr. Carnegie had given $6,000,- 

 000 — four million to be added to its 

 endowment and two million for the 

 Technical Schools, half for further 

 buildings and half for endowment. 



At the meeting of the Association 

 of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations at Baton Rouge 

 last November a resolution was adopted 

 instructing the incoming president of 

 the association to appoint a commis- 

 sion of five persons to inquire into and 

 report to the association on the or- 

 ganization and policy that should pre- 

 vail in the expenditure of public money 

 provided for experimentation and re- 

 search in agriculture. The president 

 of the association, Dean L. H. Bailey, 

 of Cornell University, has appointed 

 the following commission, the first two 

 representing persons outside agricul- 

 tural investigations, the second two 

 representing the association, and the 

 last representing the Department of 

 Agriculture: David Starr Jordan, 

 president of Leland Stanford Univer- 

 sity, chairman; Carroll D. Wright, 

 president of Clark College; H. P. 

 Armsby, director of the Pennsylvania 

 State College Agricultural Experiment 

 Station; W. H. Jordan, director of the 

 New York State Experiment Station; 

 Gifford Pinchot, forester, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



