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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVI. No. 915 



"Non-evaporating Mounts for Alcoholic Speci- 

 mens, ' ' by Eoy G. Miner. 



' ' Some Experiments of a Small Museum, ' ' by 

 Harold Madison. 



"Lantern Slides in Geography Work," by Car- 

 los E. Cummings. 



"Circulation Cases for Mounted Birds," by 

 Herbert E. Sargent. 



The Round Table discussions included five topics, 

 ' ' The Insurance of Museum Collections, " " The 

 Classification of Specimens," "The Possibilities 

 of Systematic Cooperation, between Large and 

 Small Museums," "An Exhibition to Show the 

 Destruction of Wild Life and the Extermination 

 of Species" and "The Handling of Classes in 

 Exhibition Booms." 



A day was spent by the association at the 

 Bronx, visiting both the Zoological Park and the 

 Botanical Garden, and trips were made to the 

 Museum for the Arts of Decoration at Cooper 

 Union, the New York Aquarium, and the Chil- 

 dren's Museum of the Brooklyn Institute. Many 

 remained over Saturday in order to accept the 

 invitation of the Staten Island Association of 

 Arts and Sciences to inspect its museum and to 

 see the island. 



In executive session the council voted that it 

 should be the policy of the association to deal with 

 the principles of organization and administration 

 of museums and with their problems of technique 

 rather than with matters of art, history or science 

 as such. 



Balloting for officers for the year 1912-13 re- 

 sulted in the election of Henry L. Ward, Public 

 Museum of Milwaukee, for president; Benjamin 

 Ives Gilman, Museum of Pine Arts, Boston, for 

 first vice-president; Oliver C. Farrington, Field 

 Museum, Chicago, second vice-president, and Pro- 

 fessor G. S. Morse, Peabody Museum, Salem, and 

 Professor William C. Mills, Ohio State Archeolog- 

 ical and Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio, as 

 councillors for the next three years. The secretary, 

 Paul M. Rea, Charleston Museum; assistant secre- 

 tary, Laura L. Weeks, Charleston Museum; and 

 treasurer, Dr. W. P. Wilson, Philadelphia Museums, 

 were reelected. The four councillors continuing in 

 office are Frederic A. Lucas, Henry R. Howland, 

 Frederick J. V. Skiff and Henry W. Kent. 



The association will meet next year in Phila- 

 delphia. 



Paul M. Rea, 



Secretary 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



TOEREY BOTANICAL CLUB 



The meeting of March 12, 1912, was held at the 

 American Museum of Natural History at 8 : 15 p.m. 

 The meeting was called to order by Dr. Z. S. 

 Leonard in the absence of officers of the club. 

 Mr. Sereno Stetson was appointed secretary pro 

 tern. Twenty-five persons were present. 



The paper of the evening consisted of an illus- 

 trated lecture by Dr. Marshall A. Howe on ' ' Some 

 Floral and Scenic Features of Cuba." Lantern- 

 slide photographs were shown illustrating charac- 

 teristic Cuban plant associations, particularly in 

 the provinces of Oriente, Camagiiey, Matangas and 

 Pinar del Rio. Special attention was given to the 

 numerous native palms of the island and to the 

 cacti of the Guantanamo Bay region. The sugar, 

 tobacco and fruit-growing industries of Cuba were 

 also illustrated and commented upon. 



Sekeno Stetson, 

 Secretary pro tern. 



The meeting of March 27, 1912, was held in the 

 lecture room of the New York Botanical Garden at 

 3 P.M. Vice-president Barnhart presided. Forty 

 persons were present. 



The scientific program consisted of a lecture on 

 "Organization of Pediastrum Colony," by Pro- 

 fessor E. A. Harper. The lecture was illustrated 

 with lantern slides. 



The meeting of April 24, 1912, was held in the 

 Laboratory of the New York Botanical Garden at 

 3:15 P.M., Dr. W. A. Murrill presidiog. Fifteen 

 persons were present. 



The scientific program consisted of a paper on 

 "Plant Hairs," by Dr. William Mansfield. The 

 speaker exhibited a number of figures representing 

 various types of plant hairs and showed how the 

 four main types, simple, compound, septate and 

 non-septate, could be made the basis of a key by 

 which many species of plants could be identified. 



The meeting of May 14, 1912, was held in the 

 American Museum of Natural History at 8:15 P.M. 

 President Burgess presided. Nine persons were 

 present. 



The scientific program consisted of an illustrated 

 lecture on "Dr. Charles H. Shaw's Botanical 

 Studies in the Selkirks," by Miss Caroline S. 

 Eomer. 



B. O. Dodge, 

 Secretary 



