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largely occupied with the establishment at 

 Stanford, the determination of general policies, 

 the organization of a small staff, enlarging the 

 collection of data which will be required for 

 research, and making certain preliminary sui'- 

 veys and investigations designed to furnish the 

 basis for more intensive studies. The work 

 will be fully under way by the autiunn of 1922. 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



CANADIAN SOCIETY OF TECHNICAL 

 AGRICULTURISTS 



The Canadian Society of Technical Agricul- 

 turists held its second annual convention at 

 Macdonald College, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, 

 Que., in the week of June 26 to July 1. In 

 addition to the business sessions, a number of 

 advanced lectures were given, the expense of 

 which was borne by the Dominion Department 

 of Agriculture. Professors W. T. Jackman, of 

 the University of Toronto, and A. Leitch, of 

 the Ontario Agricultural College, discussed 

 topics appertaining to rural economics. Pro- 

 fessor L. J. Cole, of the University of Wis- 

 consin, spoke on "Genetics"; Dr. A. Bruce 

 Macallum, of the Synthetic Drug Company, 

 Toronto, on "Vitamins" ; and Dr. M. 0. Malte, 

 National Herbarium, Ottawa, and Professor 

 E. Q. Stapledon, director of the Plant Breeding 

 Station, Aberystwyth, Wales, on "Plant 

 Breeding." President L. S. Klinck, of the 

 University of British Columbia, delivered the 

 presidential address and was succeeded in the 

 chair by President J. B. R«ynolds, of the On- 

 tario Agricultural College. An interesting 

 feature of the convention was an excursion to 

 the Oka Agricultural Institute, La Trappe, 

 Que., where the members of the society were 

 very hospitably entertained by the staff of the 

 institute under the Reverend Father Leopold. 

 Speakers at the luncheons and banquets 

 included the Honorable J. E. Caron, minister 

 of agriculture, Quebec; Dr. J. H. Grisdale, 

 federal deputy minister of agriculture; Dr. 

 Jas. W. Robertson, Ottawa; the Reverend 

 Father Leopold, principal of the Oka Agricul- 

 tural Institute, and Principal F. C. Harrison, 

 of Macdonald College. Professor W. H. Brit- 



tain, of the Nova Scotia Agricultural Society, 

 was appointed representative of the society on 

 the council of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. The society main- 

 tains a Bureau of Records of its members, 

 which serves as an employment agency, and a 

 bilingual journal. Scientific Agriculture (La 

 Revue Agronomique Canadienne), both of 

 which are conducted by the general secretary- 

 treasurer, Mr. F. H. Grindley, B.S.A., Gar- 

 denvale. Que. 



BISHOP MUSEUM FELLOWSHIPS 



From the list of applicants for the Bishop 

 Museum fellowships Yale University announces 

 the selection of the following fellows for the 

 year 1922-23: 



Henry W. Fowler, ichthyologist, Philadel- 

 phia Academy of Science. 



N. E. A. Hinds, instructor in geology, Har- 

 vard Universitj'. 



Carl Skottsberg, director of the Botanical 

 Garden, Gotenberg, Sweden. 



Dr. Fowler will devote his attention to a 

 study of the flsh of Hawaiian waters; Dr. 

 Hinds will continue his investigations of the 

 geology of the island of Kauai; Dr. Skottsberg 

 plans to make a study of the flora of Hawaii 

 with particular reference to comparison with 

 the plant life of Juan Fernandez and other 

 islands of the southeast Pacific. 



The four Bishop Museum fellowships yield- 

 ing $1,000 each were established in 1920 by a 

 cooperative agreement between Yale University 

 and the Bernice P. Bishop Museum of Hono- 

 lulu. They are designed primarily for aid in 

 research on problems in ethnology and natural 

 history which involve field studies in the Pa- 

 cific region. 



The Bishop Museum fellows for 1921-22 

 were Dr. F. L. Stevens, professor of botany 

 in the University of Illinois; Dr. Stephen S. 

 Visher, professor of geography in the Univer- 

 sity of Indiana, and Ruth H. Greiner, graduate 

 student in ethnology in the University of Cali- 

 fornia. The results of Professor Stevens' 

 work on Hawaiian fungi and of Miss Greiner's 

 study of Polynesian art have been submitted to 

 Bishop Museum for publication. 



