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amounts of this oil-producing seed and 

 relieve the oil shortage, seemed as he 

 told it to me Hke a chapter out of the 

 Arabian Nights. He told me how he, 

 by cablegrams to America, got the 

 English Consulate to give him papers to 

 England, and how he threw these 

 away in order that he might be arrested 

 as a spy on arrival at Folkstone and 

 so conceal from the Turks the fact that 

 he had deserted and thus save his own 

 family from massacre, only to hear 

 later of their murder; how he showed 

 General Allenby the water-bearing strata 

 where artesian wells should be sunk in 

 Palestine and aided him in placing his 

 artillery so as to produce the greatest 

 effect on the cliffs and fortifications he 

 was attacking; how he saw Balfour and 

 was of influence in getting him to make 

 his promise of "Palestine as a home 

 land for the Jews"; of his work in 

 Bulgaria to pull her out of the war — all 

 these war activities of Aaronsohn's will 

 doubtless find their place in the histories 

 now being written of the Great Struggle. 

 That, just as the war clouds are 

 lifting and he was making plans to put 

 in new crop plants and start a new 

 agriculture on a quarter of a million 

 acres of land in Palestine, and was 

 hurrying through the air from London 

 to Paris, he and his pilot should in- 

 stantly drop through the fog into the 

 sea and be lost, seems too hard to 



believe, for we had come to feel that 

 there on the eastern. Oriental end of the 

 Mediterranean there was coming into 

 existence a type of experimental agri- 

 culture which would be epoch-making 

 and that Aaronsohn was the man des- 

 tined to bring this about. When the 

 war broke, a beginning in plant exchange 

 had been made, and the plant breeders 

 of America will find in Aaronsohn's 

 bulletin on his agricultural explorations 

 in Palestine a large number of valuable 

 suggestions regarding the possibilities of 

 new dry-land cereals, stocks for the 

 jujubes, oil-producing grains, the carob 

 fodder tree, and cover crops for citrus 

 orchards. The date growers in the 

 Salt River Valley have grown some of 

 the date palms which Aaronsohn got 

 for them in Egypt, and the desert 

 hawthorn which he sent in is being 

 tested as a stock for early pears. 



The plans of these two remarkable 

 men, the myriads of observations made, 

 the knowledge gained from their re- 

 flections in solitude — all are lost to the 

 world at a time when it can ill afford 

 to lose such things and just as their 

 discoveries were beginning to need their 

 guidance. 



May their lives encourage, some- 

 where in the world, young men starting 

 out to live, to find their careers in the 

 field of plant breeding and plant 

 exploration. 



Corrections in an Article on Poultry Breeding 



Typographical errors unfortunately 

 appeared in the article by Professor 

 Lippincott, "The Breed in Poultry 

 and Pure Breeding," which appeared 

 in the February number, 1919. These 

 are of a technical nature and require 

 correction in order to make the article 

 intelHgible. Page 77, eleven lines from 

 the bottom, P = white (no pigment) 



should read p = white (no pigment). 

 Same page, two lines from bottom; 

 b = indicates, etc., should read 6 = in- 

 dicates, etc. Page 78, twelve lines from 

 the bottom, for pp (Re)_(rE) Bb read 

 pp (Re) (rE) Bb. Five lines from the 

 bottom, right-hand column, the same 

 correction should be made. The four 

 lines at the bottom should read: 



Offspring (1) Pp (Re) (Re) bB = Barred splashed cf c? ] 



(2) Pp (Re)(rE) bB = Barred blue cT & Equal 



(3) Pp (Re) (Re) hb = Non-barred splashed 9 9 | numbers 



(4) Pp (Re) (rE) hh = Non-barred blue 9 9 J 



