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erect a building to house the Zoological Soci- 

 ety's national collection of heads and horns 

 had been raised. The building will be built in 

 1917 and opened to the public in the spring 

 of 1918. The fund is made up of ten subscrip- 

 tions of $10,000 each, the donors being Mrs. 

 Frederick Ferris Thompson, Mrs. Russell 

 Sage, John D. Archbold, Jacob H. Schiff, 

 George F. Baker, Mrs. Louise W. Carnegie, 

 Andrew Carnegie, Edmund C. Converse, Sam- 

 uel Thorne, and two others who signed them- 

 selves, respectively, " In Memoriam " and " A 

 Friend." 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation notes that the Therapeutische Monats- 

 hefte for September arrived on October 8, the 

 first German medical journal to reach its 

 office since early last May. Before the war 

 twenty-six German journals were indexed 

 regularly. The German medical journals are 

 being published regularly, as abstracts from 

 them appear in the Scandinavian and Nether- 

 lands exchanges. 



The celebration on June 13 in connection 

 with the centenary of the Botanic Gardens, 

 Sydney, are noted in Nature. Speeches were 

 delivered on the occasion by the governor of 

 New South Wales, the premier, and the minis- 

 ter for agriculture, and a brief historical ad- 

 dress was given by Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.R.S., 

 the director of the gardens. Three vistas were 

 named, respectively, after Capt. Cook, Sir 

 Joseph Banks and Governor Phillip, and a 

 rosery is to be known in future as the " Cen- 

 tenary Rosery." The following memorial 

 trees were planted simultaneously by repre- 

 sentatives of the Empire and the Allies : Great 

 Britain and Ireland, the British Oak (Quercus 

 pedunculata) ; Australia, the Bunya Bunya 

 (Araucaria Bidwilli) and the Flame Tree 

 (Brachy chiton acerifolia) ; Sydney, the Port 

 Jackson Fig (Finis ruhiginosa) ; New Zea- 

 land, the Kauri (Agathis australis) ; South 

 Africa, the Cape Chestnut (Calodendron 

 capensis) ; Canada, the Sweet Gum (Liqui- 

 damoar stryraciflua) ; India, Indian Date 

 Palm (Phoenix sylvestris) ; Belgium, Black 

 Belgian Poplar (Populus monilifera) ; France, 

 Nettle Tree, or Perpignan Wopd (Celtis aus- 



tralis) ; Russia, the Aspen (Populus tremula) ; 

 Italy, Lombardy Poplar (Populus nigra, var. 

 pyramidalis) ; Serbia, the Carob (Ceratonia 

 siliqua) ; Montenegro, the Olive (Olea euto- 

 pwa) ; Portugal, Portugal Laurel (Prunus 

 lusitanicus) ; Japan, Japanese Maple (Acer 

 japonica). A memorial stone of a proposed 

 museum of botany and horticulture was laid. 

 The National Forest Reservation Commis- 

 sion has approved the purchase by the gov- 

 ernment of 59 tracts of land with a total of 

 66,880 acres in the Appalachian and White 

 Mountains. Of this, 36,000 acres is in the so- 

 called " Kilkenny Purchase Area " in New 

 Hampshire. It is the policy of the commission 

 to build up government holdings, as nearly 

 solid as may be, through buying only in cer- 

 tain specified places, which are designated pur- 

 chase areas. The Kilkenny Purchase Area 

 adjoins the so-called " White Mountain Pur- 

 chase Area " on the north, and is on the water- 

 shed of the Connecticut River. The land now 

 approved for purchase is the first to be ac- 

 quired in the Kilkenny Area. About 17,000 

 acres of land on the White Mountain area was 

 approved. This land lies for the most part 

 on the west slope of the Carter Range and 

 practically completes the government pur- 

 chases in the northern portion of the White 

 Mountain region. With this land a total of 

 698,086 acres in the White Mountains has 

 been acquired. Smaller tracts were purchased 

 in the southern Appalachian Mountains, the 

 largest total on any area being that of 7,678 

 acres in Transylvania County, North Caro- 

 lina, on the Pisgah Forest. Other tracts in 

 Avery, Caldwell, Macon and McDowell Coun- 

 ties, North Carolina, on the Boone, Nantahala 

 and Mt. Mitchell areas, aggregate 1,870 acres. 

 Approximately 2,000 acres of the approved 

 lands are on the Potomac, Shenandoah and 

 Natural Bridge areas in Virginia; 956 acres 

 are in Rabun and Union Counties, Georgia, 

 and the remaining 586 acres are in Monroe 

 and Sullivan Counties, Tennessee. Congress 

 recently reappropriated the $3,000,000 of the 

 original fund which was not spent in the 

 beginning of the work and which consequently 

 reverted to the treasury. This money, accord- 



