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tunity for applying the exact methods of mod- 

 ern ecology to the problems of Silvias, Forest 

 Pathology, Dry-land Agriculture, Plant 

 Breeding and Experimental Evolution is un- 

 surpassed. Opportunity will also be offered 

 for the taxonomic study of the varied flora. 



"While the plan contemplates graduate 

 work primarily, advanced students in botany 

 or related subjects, such as forestry and 

 agronomy, will be accepted, provided they have 

 had suflicient training to enable them to work 

 on individual problems under adequate super- 

 vision. It is hoped that the opportunity will 

 be especially welcome to foresters, pathol- 

 ogists, agronomers and teachers of botany 

 who have not yet become acquainted with the 

 methods and outlook of exact ecology, and its 

 many applications to practical plant science. 

 The summer's work will be accepted as the 

 full equivalent of a semester's work for the 

 master's or the doctor's degree at the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, and the University of Ne- 

 braska. It is expected that other universi- 

 ties will permit similar arrangements. 



Frederick E. Clements 



The Univeksity of Minnesota 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Felix Klein, professor of mathematics 

 at Gottingen, is about to retire from active 

 service. 



Mrs. a. E. Wallace writes to an American 

 correspondent : " Dr. Wallace is very well and 

 busy, writing as hard as ever; he has just 

 passed 90, and feels like 50." 



Dr. James M. Taylor will retire from the 

 presidency of Vassar College at the close of 

 the present year. 



Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Eockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Eesearch, has been ap- 

 pointed a knight of the Legion of Honor by 

 the French government. 



Dr. F. W. Putnam, professor emeritus of 

 anthropology at Harvard University, has been 

 elected non-resident vice-president of the 

 Washington Academy of Sciences. 



Professor S. W. Williston, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, will attend the ninth Inter- 



national Congress of Zoology as the delegate 

 at large of the American Zoological Society. 



The Lalande Prize, of the Paris Academy, 

 has been awarded to Professors H. Kobold 

 and W. Wirtz for their work on the determi- 

 nation of the motions of nebulte. 



The Bessemer gold medal of the Iron and 

 Steel Institute will be awarded to Mr. 

 Adolphe Greiner, general director of the So- 

 ciete Cockerill, Seraing, at the annual meet- 

 ing to be held in London on May 1 and 2. 



At the last meeting of the Eoyal Austral- 

 asian Ornithologists' Union of Melbourne, 

 Australia, Dr. E. W. Shufeldt, of Washing- 

 ton, D. C, was elected an honorary member. 



Two bronze horses, made by George Ford 

 Morris, the New York animal artist, illus- 

 trating the points of an ideal draft horse, and 

 the deficiencies of an inferior horse, have been 

 presented to Dr. A. S. Alexander, of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, in recognition of his 

 work in developing the horse breeding indus- 

 try, both of Wisconsin and the country at 

 large. 



Dr. Edward A. Burt, professor of natural 

 history (botany) in Middlebury College, Mid- 

 dlebury, Vt., has been appointed librarian and 

 mycologist of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 St. Louis, Mo. He will leave Middlebury at 

 the close of the present college year and begin 

 his work at the Missouri Botanical Garden in 

 September. 



At the recent annual meeting of the board 

 of managers of the Wistar Institute of Anat- 

 omy and Biology, Dr. Helen Dean King was 

 elected assistant professor of embryology. 

 Dr. King will continue the embryological 

 work of the institute which was begun two 

 years ago by Professor G. Carl Huber, who 

 has returned to the University of Michigan. 



Dr. Egbert H. Lowie, of the department of 

 anthropology of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, has been promoted to the 

 rank of associate curator. 



Mr. William Egbert Ogilvie Grant has 

 been promoted to be assistant keeper of the 

 department of zoology at the Natural History 



