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active interest on the part of the Government in enabling a 

 larce body of scientists to visit otherwise more or less inacces- 

 sible parts, such as xVuckland and Campbell Islands, indicates 

 a real and proper concern on the Government's part, in the 

 progress of pnre science, which, we believe and hope, will be 

 productive of sustained effort along the lines above indicated. 

 jS^ew Zealand contains so many secrets which the scientific world 

 is eager for, and there must be so very much of great economic 

 importance to be disco^'ered, that no effort should be spared for 

 their disclosure by competent men. — F. E. L. 



Tlic fourth Intcrnaiional fishery congress will be held at 

 Washington, D. C, September 22-20, 1908, and in connection 

 with it there have been arranged a number of competitive awards 

 for ^ number of investigations relative to marine life. The 

 JSTew York Botanical Garden offers a cash prize of $100 for the 

 best essay on the interrelation between marine plants and ani- 

 mals. The Xew York Academy of Sciences offers a prize of 

 similar amount lV)r the contribution of greatest practical value 

 to the fisheries or fish culture, and the American Fisheries So- 

 ciety the same amount for the best paper embodying the most 

 important original observations and investigations regarding 

 the cause, treatment and prevention of disease affecting fish 

 under cultivation. The !N'ew York Aquarium offers the same 

 amount for an exposition of the best method of combating fun- 

 gus disease in fishes in captivity. 



A new text-hool- of Physiology and Ecology, by Professor 

 F. E. Clements, has just been issued by H-. Holt & Co. of New 

 York. 



Mr. Leslie M. Gooddnlg and Mr. Beinienschne'ider are 

 camped in the Santa Eita Mountains, Arizona, where they are 

 making large collections of seeds of the native economic gTasses 

 and trees for shipment to the Transvaal Government, South Af- 

 rica. ]\rr. Gooddnig has been in the employ of the Transvaal 

 Government for about a year, having collected in the country 

 alviut Chihuahua, ^fexico; Douglas, Arizona, and vSilver City, 

 Xew ^Fcxico.— J. J. T. 



