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Stiteler; in advanced botany by Dr. J. W. 

 Harshberger, University of Pennsylvania. 

 Opportunities for research are freely open to 

 independent investigators. For the announce- 

 ment address the Biological Laboratory at 

 Cold Spring Harbor, IST. Y. 



The twelfth annual meeting of The Amer- 

 ican Oil Chemists' Society, formerly The 

 Society of Cotton Products Analysts, will be 

 held on May 16 and 17, the two days imme- 

 diately preceding the twenty-fifth Annual 

 Convention of the Inter- State Cottonseed 

 Crushers' Association, at the Congress Hotel, 

 Chicago. Besides the several committee re- 

 ports addresses will be presented. In order to 

 conserve time for discussion, it is planned to 

 have abstracts of all committee reports in the 

 hands of the members at the meeting, and to 

 request that the discussion of these abstracts 

 be prepared in writing in as many cases as 

 possible. The annual banquet will be held 

 Tuesday evening. The local committee has 

 arranged a number of trips about the city to 

 points of general interest to visitors and of 

 special interest to chemists. 



Under the auspices of the Wild Flower 

 Preservation Society of America in coopera- 

 tion with Community Center Department of 

 the Public Schools the following lectures have 

 been given in Washington: 



February 9. The lure of Rock Creek Park: Dr. 

 F. Lamsoa-Scriliiier. 



February 16 and 23. Seeds, fruits and seedlings, 

 Professor F. H. Hillman. 



Marcih 2. Boots and underground s.tenis: Albert 

 A. Hansen. 



March 9. Stems, buds and their winter study: 

 Dr. A. S. Hitchcock. 



March 16. "Leaf shapes, modifications and func- 

 tions: Dr. Paul Bartsch. 



March 2b. Flowers and their functions: P. L. 

 Bicker. 



March 30. Where wild flowers grow and why: 

 Dr. Edgar T. Wherry. 



Free public lectures were delivered in the 

 Central Display Greenhouse of the New York 

 Botanical Garden on Sunday afternoons dur- 

 ing April at 3 :15 o'clock, as follows : 



April 3. Fiber plants: Dr. A. B. Stout. 

 April 10. Milk-trees and other lactiferous 

 plants: Dr. W. A. Murrill. 



April 17. Air plants: Dr. H. A. Gleason. 

 April 24. Desert plants: Mr. G. V. Nash. 



The fifteenth French Congress of Medicine 

 will be held in Straslbourg from October 3 to 

 5, under the chairmanship of Dr. Bard, pro- 

 fessor of clinical medicine in the University 

 of Strasbourg. These are the subjects to be 

 discussed: (1) the anatomic and functional 

 adaptation of the heart to pathologic condi- 

 tions of the circulation; papers by Dr. Cottin, 

 of Strasibourg, and Dr. Demeyer, of Brussels; 

 (2) glycemia; papers by Professor Ambard, 

 Strasibourg; Dr. Chabanier, Paris, and Dr. 

 Baudoin, Paris; and (3) antianaphylaxis ; 

 papers by Professor Widal, Paris ; Drs. Abrami 

 and Pasteur-Vallery-Eadot, Paris, and Dr. 

 Pehu, Lyons. 



Chemical Abstracts has in process of print- 

 ing a Formula Index to the 1920 volume. The 

 indexing of chemical compounds by formulas, 

 .which is done in addition to the indexing by 

 names, is a new departure for a chemical ab- 

 stract journal. This index will contain about 

 seven thousand entries. 



The interchange of publications between 

 Germany and the United States, which was 

 suspended when this country entered the World 

 War in 1917, has been resumed' by the Interna- 

 tional Exchange Service of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



A SCIENTIFIC expedition to Spitzbergen is be- 

 ing organized by Oxford University, with the 

 necessity of procuring £3,000 to carry out the 

 work. 



A NEW launch for use at the Macbride Lake- 

 sidte Laboratory of the University of Iowa on 

 Lake Okoboji, has 'been provided by a gift from 

 Mr. Felix Hirschel, of Davenport. 



During the Boston meeting of the American 

 Medical Association in June there will be in 

 the room used for exhibits on the floor of the 

 special libraries at the Boston Public Library, 

 an. exhibit of early texts (Hippocrates to 

 Sydenham) dealing with fevers and with spe- 

 cific infections. These will be arranged in 



