January 24, 19iej 



SCIENCE 



91 



sometimes within a few hours of the inocula- 

 tion of the serum. 



The 1918 Directory of the American Chem- 

 ical Society is now available for members. It 

 contains 422 pages as compared with the 1910 

 directory's 289 pages, and it exceeds by approx- 

 imately 4,000 the number of members listed in 

 the 1916 issue. The directors have voted that 

 it may be obtained by memibers from the secre- 

 tary on payment of $1.00 to cover partial cost 

 of printing and upon their written statement 

 that it is desired for their i>ersonal use only 

 and will not be loaned or disposed of to any 

 firm which they may or may not be connected 

 or to any individual to be used for advertising 

 purposes. 



A COMMITTEE of the Scottish Geographical 

 Society has been appointed for the formation 

 of a complete collection of the old maps of 

 Scotland, including all early atlases, county 

 maps, charts, towai plans and estate plans, 

 and especially manuscript maps. The present 

 acting members of the committee are the 

 Hon. Lord Guthrie, president of the society ; 

 Professor P. Hume Brown, LL.D., histor- 

 iographer royal; J. G. Bartholomew, carto- 

 grapher to the King; W. B. Blaikie. LL.D., 

 and Harry R. G. Inglis, members of the Coun- 

 cil. Mr. Inglis has been appointed honorable 

 custodian of the collection. To this com- 

 mittee the council has handed over the care 

 of all early maps already in the possession of 

 of the society. The committee has acquired 

 by purchase the collection of old Scottish maps 

 belonging to the late Mr. C. G. Cash, who for 

 many years made a special study of the sub- 

 ject; and through the generosity of certain 

 donors and certain fortuitous circumstances, 

 have been placed in such a position that they 

 require only about half-a-dozen general maps 

 to make the collection complete down to 1820, 

 and they already have maps which do not ap- 

 pear in any of the puhlic libraries of Scot- 

 land. The collection as it stands is unique, 

 being more nearly complete that any yet 

 gathered. So far, the expenses of the com- 

 mittee have been met by voluntary subscrip- 

 tions, the amount of which on September 30, 

 1918, was £111. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 The new mining and engineering building 

 of the University of Arizona, which has been 

 under construction since May, 1917, was 

 opened on January 3. This building is the 

 finest on the university campus and has been 

 constructed and equipped at a total cost of 

 $210,000. 



The faculty of the school of medicine of 

 Western Reserve University has voted to ad- 

 mit women next year. 



For the first time in the history of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, the doors of the uni- 

 versity hospital are to be thrown open to 

 women physicians, who will act as interns. 

 Two women students in the medical depart- 

 ment of the university who will graduate in 

 June have been chosen by the managers of the 

 hospital. They will assume their duties shortly 

 after graduation. 



Professor Hal W. Moselev has been pro- 

 moted to be associate professor of chemistry in 

 the Tulane University of Louisiana. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



EUCALYPTUS NEVER PRESENT IN NORTH 

 AMERICA 



The identification of the antipodean genus 

 Eucalyptus in the fossil floras of Europe was 

 the subject for a sweeping condemnation by 

 the veteran systematist Bentham in one of his 

 addresses. Without subscribing to the view- 

 point of one who was at best a narrow special- 

 ist and could see nothing useful in the study of 

 fossil plants, it remains true that the identifi- 

 cation of Eucalyptus in many fossil floras has 

 led to what I believe to be erroneous conclu- 

 sions ill the minds of many geologists and 

 botanists who lack both time and the special 

 knowledge for passing on the returns. 



A few .vears ago I advanced a theor.v of 

 origin and distribution for the family Myrta- 

 ceae which was based largely upon the recent 

 and fossil distribution of the different tribes.* 

 This theory in its broader outlines considered 



1 Berry, E. W., "The Origin and Distribution of 

 the Family Myrtaceee, " Bot. Gaz., Vol. 59, pp. 

 484-^90, 1915, 



