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on the Palo Alto estate for the preservation of 

 the native vegetation. These plant reserves 

 embrace several hundred acres and contain a 

 variety of plant formation, such as stream- 

 bank, redwood canon, oak-madrofia forest, 

 serpentine outcrops and chaparral. In a pre- 

 liminary survey of the reserves 64 species of 

 native lignescent plants were catalogued. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Sir William Eamsay, the distinguished 

 British chemist, died on July 23, in his sixty- 

 fifth year. 



At the annual meeting of the Royal Society 

 of Arts on June 29, two weeks before the 

 death of Elie Metchnikoff, it was announced 

 that the Albert medal of the society for the 

 current year had been awarded to him " in 

 recognition of the value of his investigations 

 into the causes of immunity in infective dis- 

 eases, which have led to important changes in 

 medical practise, and to the establishment of 

 principles certain to have a most beneficial in- 

 fluence on the improvement of public health." 



The Eoyal Society of Edinburgh at its 

 meeting of July 3, elected foreign honorary 

 fellows as follows: Professor C. Barrois, pro- 

 fessor of geology and mineralogy, Lille; Pro- 

 fessor D. H. Campbell, professor of botany, 

 Leland Stanford University; Professor M. E. 

 Gley, professor of physiology, Paris; Pro- 

 fessor C. Golgi, professor of anatomy, Rome; 

 General W. C. Gorgas, U. S. Army; Professor 

 G. B. Grassi, professor of comparative anat- 

 omy, Borne; Professor E. C. Pickering, di- 

 rector of Harvard College Observatory; Pro- 

 fessor E. Warming, emeritus professor of bot- 

 any and keeper of the Boyal Botanic Gar- 

 dens, Copenhagen. 



Sm George T. Beilby, F.E.S., the chemist 

 and metallurgist, Mr. Edward Dent, Sir Rob- 

 ert Hadfield, F.R.S., the metallurgist, and Sir 

 H. Capel Holden, F.R.S., the electrical engi- 

 neer, have been elected to the council of the 

 Royal Society of Arts. 



The Earl of Selborne has resigned the office 

 of president of the British Board of Agricul- 

 ture and Fisheries. 



The prize fellowship, offered by the English 

 Federation of University Women to encour- 

 age research, has been awarded to Dr. Alice 

 Lee, fellow of University College, London, who 

 proposes to undertake an investigation into 

 the birth-rate as affected by present condi- 

 tions. 



Dr. Victor V. Anderson has been placed in 

 charge of a medical department and psycholog- 

 ical laboratory in the Boston police court es- 

 tablished by the city council on June 23. 



Dr. William S. O'ISTeill Sherman, Pitts- 

 burgh, has started for Europe, where he will 

 do research work in war hospitals for the 

 Rockefeller Institute. He is to make a spe- 

 cial study of gangrene, tetanus and amputa- 

 tion. 



The Department of Botanical Research of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington will be 

 represented at the sixty-eighth meeting of the 

 American Association by Drs. Forrest Shreve 

 and H. A. Spoehr. 



Zoological investigations are being con- 

 ducted this summer by the department of for- 

 est zoology of the New York State College of 

 Forestry at Syracuse, on the following lines : 

 The fish survey of Oneida Lake is being con- 

 tinued by Dr. C. C. Adams and Professor T. L. 

 Hankinson, assisted by Mr. A. G. Whitney. 

 Mr. Frank C. Baker is continuing his study 

 of the relation of molluscs to fish. Professor 

 H. N. Jones, bacteriologist of Syracuse Uni- 

 versity, is studying the diseases of fish. Pro- 

 fessor P. S. Welch, of the Kansas State Col- 

 lege, is working in cooperation on the annelid 

 worm fauna of the lake and on the fish food in 

 the water lily zone. Through a grant by Hon. 

 R. M. Barnes, of Lacon, 111., also cooperating 

 with the college, P. M. Silloway is making a 

 survey of the bird life in the forests about the 

 Summer Forest Camp at Cranberry Lake, 

 Wanakena, N. T. 



The Board of Scientific Directors of the 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research 

 announce the following promotions and ap- 

 pointments : Dr. Alphonse R. Dochez, hitherto 

 an associate in medicine, has been made an 

 associate member. Dr. Henry T. Chickering 



