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British and foreign plants to the University 

 of Manchester. The acquisition of this col- 

 lection added to the existing herbarium of the 

 Manchester Museum, and more particularly 

 to the large and valuable collection of non- 

 European plants presented to the university 

 in 1904 by Mr. Cosmo Melvill when he re- 

 tired from business in Manchester, places the 

 university among the foremost of British in- 

 stitutions in respect of this necessary instru- 

 ment of botanical study and research. The 

 comprehensiveness of the collection may be 

 gathered from the fact that the British por- 

 tion contains no less than 87,000 separate 

 sheets of mounted plants, while the European 

 portion amounts to 295,000 sheets. Mr. Bailey 

 has made generous provision for the cost of 

 transference of his herbarium to Manchester, 

 and also towards the expenses of completing 

 the mounting of the specimens, so that it may 

 be available for study and reference. 



Announcement is made of the establish- 

 ment for the year 1917-18 in Nela Eesearch 

 Laboratory, ISTational Lamp "Works of General 

 Electric Company, of two fellowships in phys- 

 ical research to be known as the " Charles F. 

 Brush Fellowships." One fellowship, extend- 

 ing over the nine-month period of the academic 

 year 1917-18 carries with it an honorarium of 

 $600 and is open to men who have either com- 

 pleted a course of graduate work leading to 

 the doctorate degree or who have had equiva- 

 lent work, particularly in original research. 

 The other fellowship, extending over the three- 

 month summer period of 1917, carries with it 

 an honorarium of $200, and is open to men 

 who, having completed their academic work, 

 and having begun to teach, desire to spend a 

 summer in original research in Nela Eesearch 

 Laboratory. These fellowships are offered for 

 the coming year through the generosity of Mr. 

 Brush who desires thereby to stimulate inter- 

 est in industrial physics and to make it pos- 

 sible for young men to undertake research 

 work in physics in the environment of an in- 

 dustrial plant. The Nela Eesearch Labora- 

 tory will provide space and all necessary facili- 

 ties, and will have general supervision over 



the investigations, which must be consistent 

 with the normal activities of the laboratory. 

 Candidates for these fellowships are requested 

 to apply to the director, Nela Eesearch Lab- 

 oratory, Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio. 



The State Microscopical Society of Illinois 

 has adopted the following resolution : 



Sesolved, That the State Microscopical Society 

 of Illinois hereby approve the representations made 

 on its behalf by our Mr. Henry P. Fuller at the 

 federal hearing on the subject of the proposed 

 Dunes Park, on October 20, 1916, stating the atti- 

 tude of this society in favor of such establishment; 

 and now, since an interested and active opposition 

 to the proposal has been developed in certain quar- 

 ters from land speculators, be it further 



Besolved, That this society most earnestly urge 

 upon the United States Department of the Interior, 

 upon the United States Congress, soon to be in ses- 

 sion, and upon the senators and representatives 

 from Illinois and Indiana in particular, the prompt 

 passage of a bill for the establishment of the Sand 

 Dunes region on the southern shores of Lake Michi- 

 gan as a United States national park; with pro- 

 vision for its proper maintenance, that this rare 

 and wonderful bit of nature so close to the great 

 centers of population may be preserved for our own 

 and coming generations as a place for study and 

 for recreation, a sanctuary of safety for the birds 

 and beasts and insects, the flowers and trees, and 

 all the wild free life of field and brook and forest 

 and beach forever. 



Albert McCaila, Chairman, 

 Henry F. Fuller, 

 Lester Curtis, M.D. 



The Ecological Society of America has 

 issued a handbook giving information relative 

 to the scientific activities, travels, field and 

 instrumental experience, laboratory and ex- 

 perimental work, and taxonomic specialties 

 of the 307 members of the society. Copies can 

 be secured by addressing the secretary-treas- 

 urer. Dr. Forrest Shreve, Tucson, Arizona. 



The completed laboratory building and plant 

 houses of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden will 

 be dedicated on April 19-21. There were 

 planned formal exercises followed by a recep- 

 tion on Thursday evening, the 19th, sessions for 

 the reading of scientific papers on Friday morn- 

 ing and afternoon, and on Saturday morning; 



