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memoi'atioii of Gregor jMendel with reference to his work on liy- 

 bricls and heredity, ximong the names signed to the prelimi- 

 nary request for support and scientific contributions are to be 

 found those of L. II. Bailey, Bateson, Boveri, Castle, Conklin, 

 CannO'U, Correns, Fr. Darwin, Davenport, MacDougal, Engler, 

 Flahault, Goebel, O. Hertwig, Miyoshi, Morgan, Ilosenberg, 

 Schwendener, Sliull, Strasburgcr, Tschermak, Yilmorin, Web- 

 l)er, AYeissman, Whitman, Wittrock and many others. 



An expedition fruDi the Desert Laboratory has recently cir- 

 cumnavigated the Salton Lake in California, which is now found 

 to have an area of about TOO square miles. A basin l>elow sea- 

 level in Mexico sustaining similar relations to the delta of the 

 Bio' Colorado was traversed and the more prominent features 

 of the effects of the frequent oscillations of water level on the 

 vegetation noted. This basin was named the Battec basin in 

 honor of the first American who crossed it in 1827. 



Tlie report of the Secretarij of the Botanical Society of 

 America, of March 1, 1907, shows that the association now lias 

 a total constituency of one hundred and twenty-one. By the 

 recent action of the society, the money in its possession on Jan- 

 uary 1, 1907, amounting to over three thousand dollars, has been 

 constituted a permanent endowment fund, which with its in- 

 come is to be preserved until a fund of ten thousand dollars is 

 accumulated. A grant of one hundred dollars was made to Dr. 

 E. A. Bessey, as an aid in his investigation of the flora of 

 the Florida Keys. A grant of fifty dollars was made to Dr. J. 

 C. Arthur to aid in the continuance of his experimental study 

 of the plant rusts. 



It lias recently been announced that Dr. E. C. Jeffrey, of 

 Harvard University, has been promoted to a professorship of 

 Plant Pathology in that institution. 



Professor F. E. Clements, of the University of N'ebraska, 

 has just completed a text-book on plant physiology for the use 

 of college students. It will be available for use at the opening 

 of the next academic year. 



Professor J. C. Artlrur, of Purdue University, gave a 



