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Beginning with volume XVIII the business management of the 
Journal of Biological Chemistry will be conducted for the directors 
of the Journal by the publication department of the Rockefeller 
Institute for Medical Research. 
The Garden library has received volume I, number 1, of the new 
Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, issued in March, 1914, 
and comprising 155 pages. This is a quarterly publication con- 
taining scientific contributions from the Missouri Botanical Gar- 
den, and from the Graduate Laboratory and Faculty of the Henry 
Shaw School of Botany of Washington University, which is affili- 
ated with the Missouri Botanical Garden, The Introduction to the 
first number states that “The Annals will be maintained upon a 
strict subscription basis, using it in exchange only when its equiva- 
lent can be obtained.” This publication and the Bulletin of the 
garden together take the place of the Annual Report, familiar to 
botanists since 1890. The Twenty-third Annual Report (1912) 
marks the close of that series. 
At the meeting of the Council of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, on April 21, 1914, the first of the 
Jane M. Smith life memberships in the association was awarded 
to Professor Charles Horton Peck, Albany, N. Y. for thirty-seven 
years state botanist of New York. 
On March 4 the director of the Garden addressed the National 
Arts Club at their club house, on the subject of The Botanic 
Garden Idea for American Cities; and on April 30, the National 
Plant, Flower, and Fruit Guild, at their annual meeting in the 
American Museum of Natural History, on the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden. 
Science, for April 3, 1914, contains the following item: “ The 
House Committee has favorably reported the bill providing that 
the historic botanic garden [in Washington, D. C.], located for 
many years at the foot of Capitol Hill, be removed to Rock Creek 
Park, in the far northwest section of the city. The bill also pro- 
vides that the garden is to pass from the direct control of congress 
to that of the department of agriculture.” 
