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lings. (Bead by title.) E. H. True, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, IJ. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Duplication and cohesion in the main axis in 

 chicory, A. B. Stout, New York Botanical Garden. 



The sequence of life in peat bogs. (Bead by 

 title.) W. W. Eowlee, Cornell University. 



Some observations on the sexuality of Spirogyra, 

 H. H. York, Brown University. 



The problem of the imported plant disease as il- 

 lustrated by the White Pine Blister Eust. (Eead 

 by title.) Haven Metcalf, Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Outline of the history of the science of phyto- 

 pathology, H. H. Whetzel, Cornell University. 



Tubers within tubers of Solanum tuberosum, F. 

 C. Stewart, New York Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. 



The rosy-spored Agarics of North America, W. 

 A. Murrill, New York Botanical Garden. 



Some botanieal-pharmaeognostical investigations, 

 Henry Kraemer, Philadelphia College of Phar- 

 macy. 



The cytological structure of Botryorhisa Sippo- 

 crateae. (Bead by title.) E. W. Olive, Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden. 



APRIL 21 



Conference to consider Vacant Lot Gardening and 



how the Botanic Garden may become 



Most Helpful to Teachers 



Dr. C. A. King, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences and Erasmus Hall High School, presiding. 



Welcome, Dr. C. Stuart Gager, director of the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



The possibilities of vacant lot gardening in 

 Brooklyn, Mr. H. P. Button, professor in the New 

 York State School of Agriculture on Long Island. 



How may the Botanic Garden cooperate vpith lo- 

 cal schools? Dr. Ealph C. Benedict, Bushwick High 

 School ; Miss Beatrice King, Public School No. 25 ; 

 Miss Johanna Becker, Public School No. 36; Dr. 

 Frederic Luqueer, Public School No. 152; Miss 

 Margaret Kane, Public School No. 98; Mr. James 

 O 'Donnell, Public School No. 43 ; Mrs. Alice Eitter, 

 Public School No. 89. 



Opportunities offered by the Botanic Garden, Dr. 

 E. W. Olive, curator of Public Instruction. 



What the Botanic Garden is doing for Brooklyn 

 boys and girls. (With brief statements by ten 

 boys and girls.) Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, curator of 

 elementary instruction; Miss Jean Cross, assistant 

 curator of elementary instruction. 



Tea was served at 4:30 p.m. by the Woman's 

 Auxiliary of the Botanic Garden. 



THE STANFORD MEETING OF THE PA- 

 CIFIC DIVISION OF THE AMERICAN 

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- 

 VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 

 The second annual meeting of the Pacific Divi- 

 sion of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science was held at Leland Stanford 

 Junior University, California, between the dates, 

 April 5 to 7, 1917. The headquarters of the Di- 

 vision were maintained in the rotunda of David 



Starr Jordan Hall, and the sessions of the several 

 societies participating in the meeting were held in 

 lecture rooms of the departments to which the so- 

 cieties were closely related. 



Three general sessions of the division were held, 

 the first of which was a symposium on the after- 

 noon of Thursday, April 5, Dr. J. 0. Branner, 

 president of the Pacific Division, presiding. This 

 symposium had been prepared by Dr. D. T. Mac- 

 Dougal, director of the Desert Laboratory of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, Tucson, upon 

 the subject, "Coordination and Cooperation in Ee- 

 search and in Applications of Science." Four ad- 

 dresses were presented as follows: 



"Science, and an Organized Civilization," by 

 Wm. E. Eitter, director, Seripps Institution for 

 Biological Eesearch, La JoUa, California. 



' ' The National Eesearch Council as an Agency 

 of Cooperation," by Arthur A. Noyes, director of 

 Chemical Eesearch, Throop College of Technology, 

 Pasadena, California. 



"Plans for Cooperation in Eesearch among the 

 Scientific Societies of the Pacific Coast, "by J. C. 

 Merriam, professor of paleontology. University of 

 California, Berkeley. 



"The Applications of Science," by William F. 

 Durand, professor of mechanical engineering, Stan- 

 ford University, California. 



On the evening of Thursday, April 5, a general 

 session was held in the assembly hall of the Outer 

 Quadrangle, Dr. J. C. Branner, president of the 

 division, presiding. At this session. President E. L. 

 Wilbur welcomed the association on the part of the 

 university, and Dr. James A. B. Scherer, president 

 of Throop College of Technology, responded. In 

 this response President Scherer extended the invi- 

 tation of Throop College of Technology and other 

 institutions of southern California to the Pacific 

 Division of the American Association to hold its 

 1918 meeting in Pasadena. The nominating com- 

 mittee presented its report, nominating the follow- 

 ing members to serve upon the Executive Committee 

 for a term of three years each: Dr. W. W. Camp- 

 bell, director of the Lick Observatory, Mount Ham- 

 ilton; Dr. Wm. E. Eitter, director of the Seripps 

 Institution for Biological Eesearch, La Jolla, Cali- 

 fornia, and Mr. C. E. Grunsky, president of the 

 American Engineering Corporation, San Francisco. 

 This report was accepted and the secretary was in- 

 structed to cast the ballot for these names. Fol- 

 lowing the transaction of this business. Dr. J. C. 

 Branner, the retiring president of the Pacific Di- 

 vision of the American Association, presented his 

 presidential address upon the subject, "Some of 



