JuLy 26, 1918] 
Ten Thousand Smokes, which it is expected 
to continue after the war. 
The party this year entered the region from 
the Bering Sea side of the Alaska peninsula 
rather than from the Pacific as heretofore. The 
ship that carried them, the Dora, was one of 
those eaught by the unusually bad ice condi- 
tions this spring in Bering Sea and for two 
days was seriously hampered by the ice floes, 
which made navigation precarious, but, al- 
though warned by the coast guard cutter to 
turn back, she finally made her way through 
the ice without mishap. When last heard from 
on June 10, the expedition was camped at the 
foot of Naknek Lake prepared to plunge into 
the wilderness. 
THE BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
On June 13 the treasurer of the Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Sciences received from 
two anonymous donors a gift of securities of 
the par value of ten thousand dollars, as an 
addition to the permanent endowment of the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and to be known 
as the Benjamin Stuart Gager Memorial 
Fund. At the request of the donors, the in- 
come from this fund is to be expended for 
publications for the library or otherwise as 
the present director of the garden may desig- 
nate. 
The chairman of the Brooklyn Botanie Gar- 
den Governing Committee, Mr. Alfred T. 
White, has made provision for several prizes 
for 1918 and annually thereafter. The most 
important of these prizes is a scholarship of 
the value of $100 to be awarded to the boy or 
girl who has taken class work at the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden for not less than three years, 
and who has shown marked ability along bo- 
tanical and agricultural lines, both at the Gar- 
den and in his high-school courses, as attested 
by his principal and teachers. This will be 
known as the Alfred T. White Scholarship, 
and will be awarded for the first time in 1920. 
Further information may be obtained by ad- 
dressing the director of the Garden. 
Details as to this and some of the other 
prizes are published in the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden Leaflet of June 20,1918. Special men- 
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tion, however, should here be made of the 
offer of two first and two second prizes (one 
for boys and the other for girls) of War Sav- 
ings Stamps to the value of $15 and $10, re- 
spectively, for excellence in back-yard gar- 
dens; and of two other prizes (one for boys 
and one for girls) of $10 each, in War Sav- 
ings Stamps, for making the best use of a plot 
of ground in the children’s gardens at the 
Brooklyn Botanie Garden. 
In addition to the above, twenty prizes of 
ten Thrift Stamps each (ten to boys and ten 
to girls) will be awarded to those who are 
most generally helpful in connection with the 
children’s garden at the Botanic Garden. 
Promptness, regularity of attendance, effort, 
accomplishment and other points will form 
the basis of this award. The War Savings 
Stamps and Thrift Stamps will be awarded 
only for the period of the present war. 
THE CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE 
Tue following statement is authorized by 
the Secretary of War: 
The organization of the Chemical Warfare 
Service has been completed. Henceforth all 
phases of gas warfare will be under the con- 
trol of the Chemical Warfare Service com- 
manded by Major-General William L. Sibert. 
Heretofore chemical warfare has been car- 
ried on by divisions in the Medical Depart- 
ment, the Ordnance Department, and the Bu- 
reau of Mines. All officers and men who have 
been connected with offensive or defensive gas 
warfare here will be responsible to the Chem- 
ical Warfare Service. The field training sec- 
tion at present in under the Corps of Engi- 
neers. 
Defensive warfare has been under the con- 
trol of the Medical Department. This work 
has consisted of the designing and manufac- 
ture of masks both for men and animals and 
the procurement of appliances for clearing 
trenches and dugouts of gas. 
Offensive gas warfare consists principally of 
manufacturing gases and filling gas shells. 
The work has been under the direction of the 
Ordnance Department. 
The new department will take over the work 
