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mounted sheets. It should be attached merely 

 by gumming the lower surface of the upper 

 left-hand corner of the label, and under no 

 circumstances should the entire back of the 

 label be pasted to the sheet. It frequently 

 happens that it is necessary or desirable to re- 

 cord additional data on the back of the label, 

 and again, if merely attached by the upper 

 left-hand corner, the label can then be lifted or 

 turned back should it cover any portion of the 

 specimen that it is necessary or desirable to 

 examine. 



The advantages of a comprehensive system 

 of field labels are very great, and their use 

 should appeal to the most conservative botan- 

 ist. The addition of the field label to the 

 mounted sheet does not detract from the ap- 

 pearance of the mounted specimen, it supplies 

 a proper place for recording data regarding 

 the plant itself that otherwise, if recorded at 

 all, must be abbreviated and crowded on the 

 small herbarium label or laboriously copied on 

 the sheet itself, and if consistently used will 

 preserve in a form available for other con- 

 temporary workers as well as for future bot- 

 anists a mass of information regarding the 

 plants that is now not being recorded at all, or 

 if recorded, is rarely attached to the actual 

 mounted specimens and ultimately becomes 

 lost. E. D. Merrill 



Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I. 



NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The autumn meeting of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences will be held on Monday, Tues- 

 day and Wednesday, November 13, 14 and 15, 

 1916, in the new buildings of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, adjoining the 

 Charles River Basin in Cambridge, with head- 

 quarters across the Basin at the Harvard 

 Club, 374 Commonwealth Avenue, in the Back 

 Bay district of Boston. Hotels Puritan and 

 Somerset, in the same block with the Harvard 

 Club on Commonwealth Avenue, will be con- 

 venient for members accompanied by their 

 families. Luncheon will be provided for mem- 

 bers and ladies accompanying them at River- 

 bank Court, adjoining the Institute buildings 



on Monday and Tuesday, and at several of the 

 neighboring scientific institutions on Wednes- 

 day. 



It has been found necessary to postpone the 

 William Ellery Hale lectures, previously an- 

 nounced to be given by Professor E. G. Conklin 

 on Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon, 

 November 13 and 14. The Monday evening 

 lecture will be replaced by an introductory ad- 

 dress by President W. H. Welch on the Forma- 

 tion of the National Research Council at the 

 request of the President of the United States 

 and a lecture by Dr. S. W. Stratton, director 

 of the National Bureau of Standards, on the 

 Target Practise in the Navy and some of the 

 Research Problems involved, illustrated with 

 moving pictures. The Tuesday afternoon 

 session will be devoted to reports by members 

 of the National Research Council. 



At the close of the Monday evening session 

 a reception will be held by President and Mrs. 

 Maclaurin of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology and President and Mrs. Lowell of 

 Harvard University, in the General Library 

 where a scientific exhibit will be displayed. 

 On Wednesday there will be visits to scientific 

 institutions in and near Boston. 



The local committee consists of W. M. Davis, 

 chairman, W. T. Councilman, A. A. Noyes 

 and E. C. Pickering. 



The program of papers to be read at the 

 meeting is as follows: 



Monday, November IS 



From 2.00 to 3.30: 



Welcome by President Maclaurin, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology. 



Raymond Pearl, Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. Some Effects of the Continued Adminis- 

 tration of Alcohol to the Domestic Fowl, with spe- 

 cial Eeference to the Progeny. (20 minutes, lan- 

 tern.) 



Edward S. Morse, Salem, Mass. Protoconch of 

 Solemya. (10 minutes.) 



Alfred G. Mayer, Marine Laboratory, Carnegie 

 Institution. Further Studies of Nerve Conduc- 

 tion. (10 minutes, lantern.) 



E. G. Conklin, Princeton University. The Share 

 of Egg and Sperm in Heredity. (10 minutes, lan- 

 tern.) 



