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Mr. Free secured many valuable seeds and 

 living plants in exchange for similar materi- 

 al from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



We learn from Nature that Mr. B. A. Keen, 

 head of the soil physics department, Rotham- 

 sted Experimental Station, has been awarded 

 a traveling fellowship by the Ministry of 

 Agriculture. He has come to America to in- 

 spect general agricultural conditions with 

 special reference to problems on soil cultiva- 

 tion. 



Dr. Ma Saw Sa, head of the Lady Dufferin 

 Hospital, Rangoon, Burma, has come to the 

 United States to continue the study of medi- 

 cine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 



A STATUE of Dr. Enrique Nunez has been 

 erected at the entrance to the grounds of the 

 Garcia Hospital at Havana, the construction 

 of which was due to his initiative. He was 

 long chief of the national public health 

 service. 



An oil portrait of the late Senator Judson 

 H. Morrill, which for many years hung in 

 his Washington home, has been presented to 

 the University of Vermont, and has been 

 placed in Morrill Hall. 



The Experiment Station Record announces 

 the death on July 5, at the age of seventy-eight 

 years, of John Hamilton, formerly professor 

 of agriculture in the Pennsylvania State 

 College, and of Jacob H. Arnold, agriculturist 

 in' the OfBce of Farm Management and Farm 

 Economics, of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, who died on July 12, at the age of 

 fifty-seven years. 



Professor Henri Beaunis, known for his 

 work on physiological psychology and hypno- 

 tism at Mercy and later at Paris, has died at 

 the age of ninety-one years. 



The 1921 volume of the Summarized Pro- 

 ceedings of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, the publication of 

 which has been greatly delayed owing to the 

 printers' strike, will soon be issued from the 

 office of the permanent secretary of the asso- 

 ciation. This volume contains the old and the 

 new constitution, the lists of officers, and ref- 

 erences to Science for the reports of the Pacific 



Coast meeting (summer of 1915), the Colum- 

 bus meeting (1916), the New York meeting 

 (1917), the Pittsburgh meeting (1918), the 

 Baltimore meeting (1919), the St. Louis meet- 

 ing (1920), and the Chicago meeting (1921). 

 It also contains the complete list of members 

 of the association, corrected to June 15, 1921. 

 Members who have already ordered the volume 

 will be sent copies as soon as the book is pub- 

 lished; and those who have not ordered the 

 volume may still do so, the price being two 

 dollars, payable when the order is placed. The 

 price to others is two dollars and fifty cents. 

 The new list constitutes a directory contain- 

 ing the names, degrees, positions, addresses, 

 etc., of about 12,000 scientific workers and 

 others interested in scientific progress. It has 

 been prepared from data obtained through 

 special information blanks sent to all members. 



The Societe de Chimie Industrielle will hold 

 a congress in Paris in October. There will be 

 thirty-four sections representing the various 

 applications of chemistry and some valuable 

 discussions are anticipated. A reception of 

 the members will take place on the evening of 

 October 9, and the opening meeting will be 

 held on the following day, under the presidency 

 of Monsieur Dior, Minister of Commerce. On 

 October 11 the Minister of Agriculture will 

 occupy the chair at a banquet in the Palais 

 d'Orsay. A number of works will be visited 

 and an exhibition is being organized in connec- 

 tion with the congress. 



The board of trustees of The Ohio State 

 University has authorized the establishment, 

 within the college of agriculture, of the plant 

 institute of the Ohio State University. All 

 members of the staff of the college interested 

 in plant studies may be members, and all 

 graduate students doing their major work 

 with plants are associate members. The insti- 

 tute will conduct a seminary, review the work 

 of its graduate students and encourage re- 

 search, especially the study of such problems 

 as require cooperation. The departments of 

 the college chiefly concerned are: Botany, 

 Horticulture, Farm Crops, Agricultural Chem- 

 istry and Soils. 



