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Dr. Georg N. Zlatarski, professor of geol- 

 ogy at the University of Sophia, has died at 

 the age of fifty-six years. 



The statement in Sctexce, page 706, that 

 " By an arrangement with the Central Stella, 

 Eael, the Lowell Observatory has been made 

 the telegraphic distributing center for planet- 

 ary news in America," has very naturally been 

 taken to mean that all announcements con- 

 cerning planets are to be distributed by the 

 Lowell Observatory, instead of the Harvard 

 College Observatory as heretofore. The pub- 

 lished announcement of the Central Stelle in 

 the Vierteljahrsschrift (44 Jahrgang, p. 236), 

 is that the arrangement refers merely to 

 changes on the surfaces of the planets. No 

 change has been made in the plans of the 

 Harvard College Observatory for the trans- 

 mission of astronomical announcements. All 

 announcements of astronomical discoveries 

 and observations received, which are of value 

 and require immediate transmission, are cabled 

 at once to Kiel, and telegraphed at cost to all 

 who desire to receive them. A similar dis- 

 tribution of these messages, and of others in 

 which haste is not imperative, is made by mail, 

 without charge, to those who make use of 

 them. 



Two of the special features of interest to 

 industrial chemists at the winter meeting of 

 the American Chemical Society wLU be a sym- 

 posium on the chemistry and technology of 

 paint and a special sectional meeting to dis- 

 cuss the chemistry of India rubber. The 

 former wiU be held as a part of the program 

 of the industrial division under the chairman- 

 ship of A. D. Little, 93 Broad St., Boston, 

 while the Section on Rubber Chemistry will 

 be in charge of Harold van der Linde, 111 

 Broadway, New York City. 



The twenty-fifth meeting of the Lidiana 

 Academy of Science will be held at Lidian- 

 apolis, November 25-27, 1909, under the presi- 

 dency of Dr. A. L. Foley, of Indiana Univer- 

 sity. The committee to arrange for this anni- 

 versary meeting is M. B. Thomas, Crawfords- 

 ville; W. E. Stone, Lafayette; C. L. Mees, 

 Terre Haute ; W. J. Moenkhaus, Bloomington ; 

 H. L. Bruner, Indianapolis; J. P. Naylor, 



Greencastle, and Amos W. Butler, Indian- 

 apolis, chairman. It is planned to have papers 

 and addresses specially suitable for this occa- 

 sion from several of the older members who 

 have removed from Indiana. These include 

 John M.. Coulter, University of Chicago; 

 David Starr Jordan, Leland Stanford Junior 

 University; Harvey "W. Wiley, U. S. Chemist; 

 W. A. Noyes, University of Illinois; C. A. 

 Waldo, Washington University, St. Louis; 

 who have each served as its president, and 

 Barton W. Evermann, U. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion; D. T. MacDougal, Desert Laboratory, 

 Arizona; H. A. Huston, Chicago; A. H. Pur- 

 due, University of Arkansas; Charles W. 

 Greene, University of Missouri. The sessions 

 wiU be held in the Claypool Hotel, which will 

 be headquarters. A banquet wiU be given 

 there on Friday night to the distinguished 

 guests. Governor Thomas E. Marshall wUl 

 be present and David W. Dennis, of Earlham 

 College, one of the charter members and a 

 former president, will be toastmuster. 



AccoRDiN'G to a report of the Forest Service, 

 Washington, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas 

 and Wisconsin, in the order named, lead in 

 producing the eouxitry's lumber supply whose 

 valuation for last year exceeds $500,000,000. 

 Texas, Michigan, Oregon, Minnesota and 

 Pennsylvania came after the first five states 

 and others followed in decreasing amounts 

 down to Utah, the lowest on the list, with Ne- 

 vada and North Dakota, having little timbered 

 area, not rated at all. Yellow pine of the 

 south which has been far in the lead in the 

 lumber production for more than a decade, 

 more than maintained its supremacy last 

 year, contributing slightly more than thirty- 

 three per cent, of the total cut from all kinds. 

 Douglas fir, of the northwest, ranked second, 

 and white pine third. Practically all kinds 

 showed a marked decreased cut, and for the 

 first three kinds of timber there was a fall- 

 ing off of fifteen, twenty-two and twenty per 

 cent., respectively. Oak and hemlock main- 

 tained their relative ranks but showed de- 

 creases of twenty-five per cent, each in 

 amount produced, and spruce dropped eigh- 

 teen per cent. Louisiana was the heaviest 



