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Carnegie Corporation gift of $GpOO to International Catalogue of 

 ScientifiG Literature. — The International Catalogue of Scientific Lit- 

 erature has been confronted with serious financial embarrassment in 

 the issuing of its annual catalogue by the difficulty in collecting sub- 

 scriptions owing to the war in Europe. The Eoyal Society of Lon- 

 don has been kindly making up deficits until this year, when an 

 api)eal for aid was made to the United States. The interest of the 

 Carnegie Corporation of New York was enlisted in the matter and 

 that establishment very generously contributed the sum of $6,000, 

 making possible the publication of the fourteenth annual issue of the 

 catalogue. 



Cinchona Botanical Station. — The British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, which has maintained the Botanical Labora- 

 tory at Cinchona, Jamaica, for many years, announced some time 

 since that owing to financial difficulties the station would probably 

 have to be closed. 



This decision was considered by a committee representing 14 

 American institutions engaged in botanical research, and after dis- 

 cussing the statement of the Jamaica Government that the station 

 would be leased at an annual rental of $250, secured the necessary 

 amount. The committee then concluded that the matter of the lease 

 of the station should be placed in the hands of a widely recognized 

 American scientific establishment, and invited the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution to act as agent in this connection. After consideration, it 

 was decided in the interest of botanical science, to accept the invita- 

 tion, and accordingly the Institution has received the subscriptions 

 of the 14 botanical institutions referred to, totaling $280, and has 

 taken steps to secure the lease. It is understood that all questions re- 

 lating to the admission of investigators will be determined, during 

 the continuance of the European war, by the Colonial Government. 



ADJOURNMENT. 



There being no further business to transact, the board adjourned, 

 after which the Regents viewed a small exhibit of anthropological 

 and technological material, illustrating some of the lines along 

 which the Institution works. 



