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to place the work on a generous and permanent foundation. 
The experimental results obtained by Dr. Reed and Dr. Faris 
during the first three years include the basic discovery of physio- 
logical races in the smuts of the cereal grains. The importance of 
these results, described more in detail in Dr. Reed’s article else- 
where in this issue of the Recorp, can hardly be overestimated 
from either the theoretical or practical point of view, and these 
results alone amply justify the expenditure of money and effort 
already made. 
The Botanic Garden is glad to be able to announce that at a 
meeting of the Governing Committee on May 21 a letter of May 1, 
1924, was read containing an offer from three f riends of the Gar- 
den, who wish to remain anonymous, to underwrite $7,500 a year 
for the years 1926, 1927, and 1928 for such purposes in plant 
pathology work as the Director of the Garden may suggest with 
the approval of the Governing Committee. 
This most generous gift will insure the continuation of the work, 
substantially as now organized, until the end of 1928. Before the 
expiration of this period it is hoped that the permanent endowment 
funds of the Botanic Garden may be sufficiently augmented to 
place this and other research work on a permanent basis. Its im- 
portance, from the standpoint of both pure and applied science, 
merit the most generous financial support. 
C. StuarT GAGER. 
NATIONAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN THE 
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 
The Board of National Research Fellowships in Biological Sci- 
ences (of the National Research Council), Prof. Frank R. Lillie, 
Chairman, met on April 23 and made twenty-four appointments, 
of which ten were in botany, eight in zoology, five in psychology, 
and one in anthropology. The fellows in botany are E. G. Ander- 
son, James A. Faris, E. F. Hopkins, J. H. Hoskins, C. R. Hursh, 
Marian Irwin, A. J. Riker, William Seifriz, F. B. Wann, and 
R. H. Wetmore. 
Dr. Faris, who has been Research Fellow at the Brooklyn Bo- 
