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and equip the necessary buildings, and to pro- 

 vide for maintenance, apart from remunera- 

 tion to research workers. A site, described as 

 extensive and extremely suitable, has been se- 

 cured close to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 

 and the medical school of the university at a 

 cost of over £50,000. The president of the 

 committee is the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, 

 M.P., chancellor of the university, and vice- 

 presidents are the Duke of Atholl, the Earl of 

 Rosebery, Earl Beatty, Lord Glenconner, Lord 

 Leverhulme, and Sir J. Lome MacLeod. An 

 appeail has been issued, signed by Sir J. A. 

 Ewing, principal of the university, Sir R. W. 

 Philip, president of the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians of Edinburgh, and George Mackay, pres- 

 ident of the Royal College of Surgeons of 

 Edinburgh. The university has given £10,000, 

 the college of physicians £10,000, and the col- 

 lege of surgeons £5,000. 



A JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 



Cooperation in science doubles the value of 

 each man's knowledge and efforts. The Eco- 

 logical Society of America, comprising zool- 

 ogists, botanists, foresters, agricultural in- 

 vestigators, climatologists and geographers, is 

 a link in the cooperative chain which will 

 bind the natural sciences together. The 

 society has long felt the need of having its 

 own journal, and at its St. Louis meeting 

 last December voted to start a serial publica- 

 tion to present original papers of an ecological 

 character. 



The enterprise is made possible by the 

 generous action of the owners of Plant World, 

 who are giving this magazine to the Ecolog- 

 ical Society to continue as its official organ. 

 The new serial will begin as an illustrated 

 quarterly of about 200 to 300 pages per year, 

 known as Ecology. The Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden is undertaking the publication of this 

 journal in cooperation with the Ecological 

 Society under an agreement substantially like 

 that under which the American Journal of 

 Botany is now being published. The Plant 

 World will complete the present volume, num- 



ber 22, and Ecology will begin with the num- 

 ber for March, 1920. Barrington Moore, now 

 serving his second term as president of the 

 Ecological Society, has been elected editor-in- 

 chief. 



PUBLIC LECTURES OF THE CALIFORNIA 

 ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The California Academy of Sciences, under 

 the direction of Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, 

 maintains a Sunday afternoon lecture course 

 devoted to popular science topics in its Mu- 

 seum in Golden Gate Park. This course is 

 steadily gaining in popularity and serves a 

 useful purpose in bringing into closer relations 

 the research man and the public. The lec- 

 turers are largely drawn from the research de- 

 partments of the University of California and 

 Stanford University. Eollowing is the sched- 

 ule for Eeibruary and March: 



February 1. "The ocean as an abode of life." 

 Dr. W. K. Fisher, director of the Hopkins Marine 

 Station of Stanford University. 



February 7. "Life of the deep sea." J. O. 

 Snyder, associate professor of zoology, Stanford 

 University. Illustrated. 



February 15. "The ocean meadows, or the 

 microscopic life of the open sea. ' ' Dr. C. A. Ko- 

 foid, professor of zoology, University of California. 

 Illustrated. 



February 22. "Fishes of the California coast." 

 E. C. Starks, assistant professor of zoology, Stan- 

 ford University. Illustrated. 



February 29. ' ' Marine mammals. ' ' Dr. Harold 

 Heath, professor of zoology, Stanford University. 

 Illustrated. 



March 7. ' ' The fur seals of the Pribilof Is- 

 lands. ' ' Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, director of 

 the Museum, California Academy of Sciences. Il- 

 lustrated. 



March 14. ' ' Life between tides. ' ' Dr. W. K. 

 Fisher, director of the Hopkins Marine Station of 

 Stanford University. Illustrated. 



March 21. "Oceans of the Past." Dr. J. P. 

 Smith, professor of paleontology, Stanford Uni- 

 versity. 



March 28. "Systematic and economic phases of 

 California marine algffi. ' ' Dr. N. L. Gardner, as- 

 sistant professor of botany, University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



