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lecture on potato leaf -roll. A short discussion 

 was held upon some apple and tomato diseases. 

 The arrang-ements for this conference were 

 in the hands of a committee under the chair- 

 manship of Dr. M. TP. Barrus, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity. The other members of the committee 

 were: Messrs. H. H. Whetzel, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity; P. A. Murphy of Canada; E. J. 

 Wortley, of Bermuda; W. A. Orton, of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, and C. E. Orton, 

 of the Pennsylvania State College. 



MR. CARNEGIE'S WILL 



The will of the late Andrew Carnegie was 

 filed on August 28. A statement issued by 

 Elihu Root, Jr., says: 



Mr. Carnegie's gifts to charity during his life- 

 time totalled somewhat in excess of $350,000,000. 

 The value of his estate is estimated at between 

 $25,000,000 and $30,000,000. He really did divest 

 himself of his great fortune for the benefit of 

 mankind, as he long ago said that he would. 



The will leaves the real estate and all the works 

 of art and household goods to Mrs. Carnegie. 

 Financial provision for Mrs. Carnegie and for 

 Mrs. Carnegie's daughter, Mrs. Miller, was made 

 during Mr. Carnegie's lifetime rather than by 

 will. 



The fourth article of the will contains a series 

 of legacies, the most substantial of which are to 

 charitable institutions. The fifth article of the 

 will contains a series of annuities to relatives and 

 friends. The Carnegie Corporation of New York 

 is the residuary legatee, and Home Trust Com- 

 pany of New Jersey is the executor and trustee 

 under the will. 



The public bequests include: To the Cooper 

 Union, $60,000; to the University of Pitts- 

 burgh, $200,000; to Hampton Institute, $300,- 

 000, and to Stevens Institute, $100,000. 



The annuities include $10,000 to Dr. Henry 

 S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foun- 

 dation for the Advancement of Teaching and 

 $5,000 to Dr. Eobert S. "Woodward, president 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 and Dr. W, J. Holland, director of the Car- 

 negie Museum at Pittsburgh. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Major Lawrence Maktin, General Stafi, 

 U. S. Army, who is chief, Geographical Sec- 

 tion, Military Intelligence, U. S. Army, left 

 Paris on August 17 for Turkish Armenia, 

 Russian Transcaucasia and Persia, as geog- 

 rapher to General Harbord's Mission to Ar- 

 menia. 



With the approval of President Wilson, 

 Dr. Charles H. Herty has sailed for France 

 to obtain for dye consumers of this country a 

 six months' supply of such dyes as are now 

 needed but have not yet been manufactured 

 here. The dyes include the so-called " vat 

 colors," which are used chiefly by the manu- 

 facturers of wash goods. It is expected they 

 will be shipped to this country within sixty 

 days. 



Major F. E. Breithut, formerly of the 

 Chemical Warfare Service Division of the 

 United States Army, also assistant professor 

 of chemistry at the College of the City of 

 New York, has resigned to accept a position 

 with The Foundation Oven Corporation. 



Mr. Frederick L. Hoffman, vice-president 

 and statistician of the Prudential Insurance 

 Company, has gone to England to make an 

 intensive investigation into the efPects of war 

 on insurance, including the methods and re- 

 sults of national health insurance in Great 

 Britain. 



Dr. Eollin T. Chamberlin and Mr. Ben 

 Herzberg are spending the summer in Alaska 

 and northwestern Canada. The working sea- 

 son down to the early part of August was 

 spent in special lines of investigation on par- 

 ticular phases of the mechanics of glacier 

 movement in western Alaska and the re- 

 mainder of the season down to the middle of 

 September will be given to field work on the 

 evidences of diastrophism in the northern 

 Eockies. 



Professor W. B. Herms, associate professor 

 of parasitology in the University of Cali- 

 fornia, and a party of assistants, have com- 

 pleted a malaria-mosquito survey of California 

 during the past summer and the former has 

 resumed his university work. The survey was 



