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SCIENCE 



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ment lies. That this standard is to-day prob- 

 ably second to none is to be seen in the Kil- 

 auea model which presents several important 

 innovations in the development of land relief, 

 including the application of cirkut panorama 

 and aerial photography and the cycloramic 

 background. 



The Kilauea undertaking marks the advent 

 of the American geologist into the work most 

 complete and effective of any known for repre- 

 sentation of the immense forms with which he 

 deals. Some conception of what this subject, 

 calling for the best that modern science and 

 art can offer, has in store, may be had from 

 statements of those who have visited the active 

 volcano and maintain that a better compre- 

 hension of the huge crater may be obtained 

 from the model in Cambridge than in Hawaii 

 itself, owing to the vast dimensions of the 

 Kilauea region. What is yet in store for the 

 earth sciences through the naturalistic repro- 

 duction in relief of remaining great types of 

 land form, should give some measure of the 

 value of this contribution. 



Egbert "W. Sayles. 

 Geolooical Section, 

 Harvaed TjNrvERSiTT Museum 



BOTRYTIS AND SCLEROTINIA 



Connection has recently been established 

 between an apparently undescribed species of 

 Sclerotinia occurring in woods in the upper 

 end of Van Cortlandt Park on the rootstocks 

 of wild geranium and a species of Botrytis oc- 

 curring on the roots and rootstocks of the 

 same host. The field observations were made 

 by the writer and the culture work was con- 

 ducted in the New York Botanical Garden by 

 Professor "W. T. Home. A joint paper will 

 be offered on the subject in connection with 

 the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of 

 the Torrey Botanical Club this fall. As it will 

 be several months before this paper can appear 

 in print, it was thought advisable to call at- 

 tention to the facts at this time. Wiile con- 

 nection between Botrytis and Sclerotinia has 

 been claimed by DeBary and predicted by more 

 recent workers, this is one of the first and pos- 

 sibly the first case in which the connection has 



been definitely established by culture experi- 

 ments. Fred J. Seaver 

 The New Tork Botanical Garden 



QUOTATIONS 



A BRITISH REPORT ON INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH 

 IN AMERICA 



The Advisory Council for Scientific and 

 Industrial Research has issued the first of a 

 series of papers in which, under the title of 

 Science and Industry, it intends publishing 

 information of value to manufacturers. The 

 intention was announced in the report of the 

 Committee of the Privy Council, of which an 

 account appeared in these columns; and the 

 present instalment by Mr. A. P. M. Fleming, 

 of the British Westinghouse Company, on in- 

 dustrial research in the United States, is so 

 full of information and practical suggestion 

 that engineers will learn with regret that there 

 is little prospect of further instalments ap- 

 pearing during the war. 



The paper differs from much that issues 

 from the Stationery Office in being essentially 

 a practical work, not loaded with statistics and 

 theoretical considerations. It is a plain state- 

 ment of facts and practical suggestions very 

 important to industry, set out for British 

 manufacturers by one of their own body in 

 such a way that what it describes and what it 

 suggests can readily be understood; it is illus- 

 trated by 85 half -page or full-page blocks, and 

 published — at the public cost — at the price of 

 1 s. No appreciable expense either of time or 

 brain-stuff or money stands between the mes- 

 sage of the volume and the public for whom 

 it is meant; and while there is no point in 

 summarizing what can be easily acquired and 

 digested, some of its facts and the conse- 

 quences that they suggest are worth consider- 

 ation. 



The modern tendency of American manu- 

 facture to research may perhaps be seen most 

 strikingly in what is being done by manufac- 

 turing and similar corporations themselves. 

 Examples are to be found alike in the mechan- 

 ical, electrical, and chemical industries, and 

 are on every variety of scale, up to the £30,000 

 per year to which the Eastman Kodak Com- 



