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Rule 2. The name of a variety of fruit sliall consist of a single word. One of the 

 explanations attai'hed to this rule is to the effect that no variety should be named 

 unless distinctly superior to existing varieties in some important characteristic, nor 

 until it has been determined to perpetuate it by bud propagation, nor should the name 

 of a person be applied to a variety during his life without his consent. 



Rule 3. In the full and formal citation of a variety name, the name of the author 

 who first published it should also be given. 



Rule 4. Publication consists (a) in the distribution of a printed description nf the 

 variety named, giving the distinguishing characteristics of fruit, tree, etc.; or (b) in 

 the publication of a new name for a variety that is properly described elsewhere, such 

 publication to be made in any book, bulletin, report, trade catalogue, or periodical, 

 providing the issue beai-s the date of its publication and is generally distriljuted 

 among nurserymen, fruitgrowers, horticulturists, etc.; or (c) in certain cases the gen- 

 eral recognition of a name for a propagated variety in a community for a number of 

 years shall constitute the publication of that name. 



Rule 5. No properly published variety name shall be changed for any reason except 

 conflict with this code, nor shall another variety be substituted for that originally 

 described thereunder. 



A large number of explanatory notes and interpretations accompany the code. 

 Officers for the next two years were elected as follows: J. H. Hale, jaresident; J. 

 Craig, secretary; and L. R. Taft, treasurer. Seven silver AVilder medals and 8 bronze 

 medals were awarded for exhibitions of -fruit. One of the displays receiving a silver 

 medal was that of a collection of 109 varieties of seedling apples from Minnesota. 



Society of Horticultural Science. — Pursuant to a call issued by S. A. Beach, noted in 

 a recent number of the Record, an organization of this new society was effected at 

 Boston in September, in connection with the meeting of the American Pomological 

 Society. About 30 prominent horticulturists, representing different sections of the 

 United States and Canada, joined the society and others have signified their inten- 

 tion of doing so. The object and plans of the society are mentioned elsewhere in 

 this number. The constitution provides for assigning subjects to referees and alter- 

 nates for investigation. The subjects assigned for the next meeting were as follows: 

 The Influence of Shade on Plant Culture, L. C. Corbett and B. M. Duggar; Orchard 

 Tillage, A. R. Whitson and AV. Paddock; Orchard Cover Crops, R. A. Emerson and 

 J. Craig. A symposium on the progress of European and Canadian horticulture was 

 assigned to 5 referees and as many alternates. The next meeting will probably be 

 held at St. Louis during Convocation Week. The officers elected were as follows: 

 President, L. H. Bailey; vice-presidents, T. Y. Munson, G. B. Brackett, and E. J. 

 Wickson; secretarj'-treasurer,''S. A. Beach. 



Necrology.— Veterinary science, comparative medicine, and hygiene suffered a 

 severe loss in the death of PMmond Nocard, August 2, 1903, at the age of fifty-three 

 years. Dr. Nocard was born in Provins, France, and after a classical college course 

 entered the veterinary school at Alfort, where he graduated. His course in tliis 

 institution was interrupted by service in the Franco-Prussian war. He subsequently 

 became professor of pathology and clinical surgery at the Alfort school, and succeeded 

 Goubaux as director of the school upon the retirement of the latter in 1887. 



Dr. Nocard' s contributions to veterinary science have been of unusual extent and 

 value. He contributed greatly to the knowledge of rabies, tuberculosis, tuberculin, 

 glanders, contagious pleuro-pneumonia, piroplasmoses, actinobacillosis, dourine, and 

 other protozoan diseases, as well as to foot-and-mouth disease, contagious abortion, 

 and white scour in calves. He was frequently called upon for important public 

 service in the investigation and repression of animal diseases, not only in France but 

 in various foreign countries, including the United States. His published works are 

 exceedingly voluminous, including numerous articles in veterinary periodicals and 

 more formal contributions, xjarticularly the large volume entitled Maladies Micro- 



