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which is especially adapted to growth in arid surveys, at $1,200 to $1,500, and assistant irri 



Mr. a. N. Johnson, state highway engineer 

 of Illinois, delivered an address before the 

 students and faculty of the College of Engi- 

 neering of the University of Illinois, on Jan- 

 uary 15, entitled " The Present Status of 

 Eoad Work in Illinois." 



Mr. Donald F. MacDonald, geologist of the 

 Panama Canal, spoke to students of the 

 department of geology of Columbia Univer- 

 sity on January 17 on " The General Geology 

 of the Panama Canal Zone." 



At the recent meeting of the American So- 

 ciety of Zoologists at Cleveland, Ohio, the 

 following resolution was presented and ap- 

 proved by the society : 



In the death of Nettie Maria Stevens on the 

 fourth day of May, 1912, this society loses one of 

 its ablest members, one whose work upon the 

 relation of the chromosomes to the transmission of 

 sexual characters is of fundamental value. Enter- 

 ing upon these painstaking studies in her later 

 years, she soon attained to a position of leadership 

 in a peculiarly difficult field of research. 



Her achievements were a credit to Bryn Mawr 

 College, from which she obtained the well-deserved 

 honor of the degree of doctor of philosophy, and 

 in the world of science her place among cytologists 

 is both secure and high. 



Dr. Thomas Volney Munson, who while 

 engaged as a nurseryman at Dennison, Texas, 

 made valuable experiments on the breeding of 

 fruits, especially in viticulture, died on Jan- 

 uary 21, aged seventy years. 



The Earl of Crawford, who built an ob- 

 servatory at Dunecht and made contributions 

 to astronomy, died on January 30. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces several examinations for positions 

 under the Department of Agriculture on Feb- 

 ruary 24 and 26, including forest pathologist 

 at a salary from $1,980 to $2,400; assistant 

 forest pathologist, from $1,440 to $1,800; as- 

 sistant in xylotomy, at $1,000; assistant in 

 soil surveying, at $960 to $1,200; assistant in 

 forest management, at $1,400; examiner of 



■ation engineer at $1,200 to $1,600. 



The New York State Forestry Association 

 was organized at a convention in Syracuse on 

 January 16, attended by some fifty representa- 

 tives of the various parts of the state. This 

 association has for its object the fostering of 

 genuine forestry progress in the state of New 

 York, and in this enterprise it hopes to repre- 

 sent effectively the spirit of forest conserva- 

 tion in the state at large and of the various 

 associations interested in the welfare of the 

 forests of New York. During the convention 

 A'aluable papers on forestry subjects were pre- 

 sented and the nearly fifty guests at the 

 evening banquet were addressed by President 

 Drinker, of Lehigh University, president of 

 the American Forestry Association. The 

 president of the association is Dr. Nathaniel 

 Lord Britton, director of the New York 

 Botanical Garden and Museums, and its sec- 

 retary. Dean Hugh Potter Baker, of the New- 

 York State College of Forestry at Syracuse 

 University. 



The State Microscopical Society of Illinois 

 held its annual meeting on January 9, at 

 which the following officers were elected: 



President — Albert McCalla, Ph.D. 



First Vice-president — Walter F. Herzberg. 



Second Vice-president — Frank Harmon. 



Treasurer — Frank I. Packard. 



Corresponding Secretary — N. S. Amstutz. 



Mecording Secretary — V. A. Latham, M.D., 

 F.E.M.S. 



Trustees — M. D. Ewell, M.D., LL.D., D. L. Zook, 

 S. S. Graves, M.D., B. U. Hills, H. F. Fuller. 



The conjoint soiree with the Chicago Academy 

 of Sciences set for February 12 has been post- 

 poned to March 12 on account of the exten- 

 sive changes in the electric lighting of the 

 academy building from the direct to the in- 

 direct system not being completed. 



The president and fellows of Harvard Col- 

 lege voted, on January 27, to establish the 

 Harvard University Press, for the publication 

 of works of a high scholarly character. For 

 some years the university publication office,, 

 besides printing the catalogues, department: 



