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20. State policy in forestry, by Mr. W. A. L. 

 Bazeley, state conservation commissioner of 

 Massachusetts, Boston, Mass. 



21. Forestry and rural development, by Colonel 

 Henry S. Graves, dean of the School of For- 

 estry, Yale University. 



VI 



CONSERVATION OF NATIONAL PARKS AND SCENIC 

 RESOURCES 



22. Our scenic resources and their practical uses, 

 by Dr. G. F. Kunz, president, American Scenic 

 and Historic Preservation Society, New York 

 City. 



23. Our national park policy in its economic 

 aspects, by Mr. Robert Sterling Yard, secre- 

 tary of the National Parks Association, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



24. Conservation of waters of medicinal and heal- 

 ing value. (Not yet assigned). 



VII 

 oonseevation of game resources and WILD life 



25. Economic aspects of game conservation, by 

 Mr. F. C. Walcott, fish and game commis- 

 sioner, Hartford, Conn. 



26. Conservation of our whale fisheries, by Dr. 

 John Franklin Crowell, economist, New 

 York City. 



27. The migratory fish problem, by Dr. E. E. 

 CoKER, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



Frederick L. Hoffman, 

 Secretary of Section K 

 Wellesley Hills, Mass. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Alexander Graham Bell died on August 2 

 at his summer home in Nova Scotia. Dr. Bell 

 was born in Edinburgh on March 3, 1847. 



Dr. "W. J. Holland, since 1898 director of 

 the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, has become 

 director emeritus. He is succeeded in the 

 directorshii) of tlie museum by Mr. Douglas 

 Stewart. 



President John Bracken, of the Manitoba 

 Agricultural College, Winnipeg, formerly pro- 

 fessor of field husbandry at the University of 

 Saskatchewan, is to 'be the next premier of 

 Manitoba. 



More than 500 of the pupils and friends of 

 Professor L. Bolk, of the chair of anatomv at 



the University of Amsterdam, recently pre- 

 sented him with his portrait painted in oils. 



Dr. F. T. Aschmann, chemist to the Penn- 

 sylvania Bureau of Foods at Pittsburgh, has 

 been elected chairman of the board of chem- 

 ists of the bureau, to succeed the late Pro- 

 fessor William Frear. 



Dr. W. H. Brittain, provincial entomologist 

 for Nova Scotia, has been appointed a member 

 of the council of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, to represent the 

 Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists. 



Dr. F. p. Veitch, of the Bureau of Chem- 

 istry has been appointed by the secretary of 

 agriculture as a member of the special com- 

 mittee on government paper specifications. 

 This committee will prepare and submit to the 

 congressional joint committee on printing 

 specifications for paper for public printing 

 and binding. 



Dr. J. A. Ambler has been appointed chem- 

 ist in charge of the Color Laboratory of the 

 Bureau of Chemistry. Dr. Ambler has been 

 acting chief since the resignation of Dr. H. D. 

 Gibbs. 



Dr. W. H. Eankin, Ph.D., plant pathologist 

 for the Dominion of Canada, has been ap- 

 pointed an associate in research (plant pathol- 

 ogy) at the New York State Station, effective 

 July 1, and will take up a special study of 

 diseases and insects afliecting raspberries, par- 

 ticularly in the Hudson River Valley. This 

 work has been made possible by a special 

 grant by the legislature. D. W. Carpenter, 

 Ph.D., assistant professor of physical chem- 

 istry at the University of Iowa, has been ap- 

 pointed associate in research (chemistry), be- 

 ginning on July 1. W. L. Kulp, assistant in 

 research (biochemistry), has resigned, effective 

 on the same date, to accept a teaching fellow- 

 ship in bacteriology and biochemistry at Yale 

 University, the vacancy being filled by the 

 transfer of Millard G. Moore, assistant chemist. 



E. E. Clayton, Ph.D., extension plant 

 pathologist at the Ohio State University, has 

 been appointed pathologist at the newly estab- 

 lished field station on Long Island. H. C. 

 Huckett, a graduate student at Cornell Univer- 



