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reasonably certain that this influential or- 

 ganization will request the Board of Agricul- 

 ture to establish such a service under the 

 direction of some competent entomologist like 

 Mr. Cecil Warburton, at Cambridge, or Mr. F. 

 V. Theobald, of Wye. 



TEE FIVE EVNDKEDTU ANNIVERSARY OF 

 THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG 



The committee which took up the task of 

 preparing a suitable memorial address to the 

 University of Leipzig at its five hundredth 

 anniversary has completed its work far enough 

 to send through Professor Williston "Walker 

 an illuminated address. This was done in 

 illuminated Caston letters which belong to the 

 period of the establishment of the university, 

 on three sheets of vellum. The whole was 

 bound in a case of dark green crushed levant 

 lined with white silk. The address which ap- 

 peared on the first page was as follows: 

 Almse Matris Lipsiensis Alumni quondam Amer- 

 icani Rectori Magnificentissimo Illustrique 

 Senatui Inclitse Universitatis Lipsiensis S.D.P. 



lucundum profecto et honorificum nobis accidit 

 quod participes esse possumus lietitice Vestrse et 

 interesse sacris ssecularibus quibus natalem quin- 

 gentesimum celebratura est inclita XJniversitas 

 Lipsiensis, et optimarum artium studiorumque 

 severorum cultrix et iuvenum erecta indole ad 

 verse laudis palmam tendentium fida magistra. 

 Et enim fieri non potest quin memores simus 

 eorum qui semina sapienti.ne severint quos insc- 

 quentibus saBculis prosint, sic non minore laude 

 ei digni videntur esse qui quae a maioribus aceep- 

 erunt diligenter tutati auxerunt. 



Nos autem, quamvis alieno sub ea?lo nati simus, 

 haud alieni hie venimus, immo domum redire 

 tidemur, quibus et magistri et doctores, quin etiam 

 locus ipse mutus hie ubi liberalibus artibus irabuti 

 et docti simus cum grata reeordatione in mente 

 versetur. Qu£e cum ita sint, non tarn officio quam 

 pietate adducimur ut meritara Almse Matri Lip- 

 siensi gratiam iustis honoribus et meraori mente 

 persolvamus, Deumque Optimum Maximum com- 

 precamur ut ductam a niaximis laboribus pluri- 

 maque virtute stabilitatam Musarum liuius sedis 

 gloriam servet et sospitet. 



On this first page the capital " I " and the 

 capital " N " at the beginnings of the two 

 paragraphs were elaborately illuminated ini- 

 tials with borders extending upward and down- 



ward, enclosing the rest of the matter on the 

 page. 



On the second and third pages were the 

 names of the doctors from Leipzig done in 

 Eoman capitals, preceded by a brief introduc- 

 tion of the delegate. These pages were also 

 decorated with a border and illumination of 

 the first initials. Photographs of the various 

 pages of the address can be obtained by writing 

 to A. B. Corbin, Chapel Street, New Haven, 

 Conn. 



In addition to this memorial a fund of about 

 $350 is being utilized in sending to the library 

 certain back numbers of American scholarly 

 journals for which the library made special 

 request to the committee, and also in present- 

 ing to the library subscriptions to a number 

 of American scholarly journals which the li- 

 brary mentioned in its correspondence with 

 the committee as omitted in the regular list. 



The Smithsonian Institution has generously 

 consented to allow the use of its International 

 Exchange service for the shipment of all of 

 this material, so that the journals can be 

 obtained at the regular American rate and 

 back numbers can be forwarded without ex- 

 pense other than that necessary to take them 

 to Washington. 



The committee has acknowledged personally 

 to each of the subscribers the receipt of checks 

 and other remittances. If any member of the 

 association cares for a detailed account of the 

 shipments to the library this can be secured 

 by writing to the secretary. 



The committee consisted of: Professor J. 

 McK. Cattell, of Columbia University; Pro- 

 fessor E. B. Titchener, of Cornell University; 

 Professor Hugo Miinsterberg, of Harvard 

 University ; Dr. Cushing, principal of the New 

 Haven High School, New Haven, Conn.; Pro- 

 fessor Williston Walker, who acted as the 

 delegate and took the memorial to Leipzig; 

 and the secretary. 



Charles H. Judd, 



Secretary 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 As has already been announced, the presi- 

 dential address at the Winnipeg meeting of 

 the British Association will be given by PrO'- 



