Pebruaey 5, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



205 



At tlie exercises held in the Engineering 

 Societies Building, New York, on January 27, 

 in connection witli the inauguration of the 

 Engineering Foundation, it was announced 

 that the initial gift had heen made by Mr. 

 Ambrose Swasey, past-president of the Amer- 

 ican Society of Mechanical Engineers, who 

 gave $200,000 for " the advanceinent of the 

 engineering arts and sciences in all their 

 branches to the greatest good of the engineer- 

 ing profession and for the benefit of mankind." 

 Addresses were made by Mr. Gano Dunn, 

 president of the United Engineering Society; 

 by Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of the 

 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 

 Teaching; by Dr. Robert W. Hunt, past-presi- 

 dent of the American Institute of Mining 

 Engineers, and by Dr. Alexander 0. Humph- 

 reys, past-president of the American Society of 

 Mechanical Engineers and president of the 

 Stevens Institute of Technology. The admin- 

 istration of the fund will be intrusted to the 

 Engineering Foundation Board, elected by the 

 trustees of the United Engineering Society 

 and composed of eleven members, nine from 

 the American Society of Civil Engineers, the 

 American Institute of Mining Engineers, the 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers 

 and the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers, and two members chosen at large. 



A JOINT meeting of Section G (botany) of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science with the Botanical Society of 

 America and the American Phytopathological 

 Society was held in Philadelphia at 2 p.m., 

 December 29, 1914. Vice-president 6. P. 

 Clinton presided. The following officers were 

 elected. For member of the sectional com- 

 mittee for five years, C. S. Gager; for one year, 

 A. D. Selby; for member of the council, L. E. 

 Jones; for member of the general committee, 

 W. L. Bray. The sectional committee recom- 

 mended, and the association elected, W. A. 

 Setchell as vice-president. The following 

 papers were read: 



Address of the retiring vice-president, "The 

 Eeonomie Trend in Botany," by H. C. Cowles. 



' ' Foliar Evidence in Eegard to the Ancestry and 

 Early Climatic Environment of the Angiosperms" 



(illustrated by lantern slides), by E. W. Sinnott 

 and I. W. Bailey. 



"Physiological Eccentricities of the Blueberry 

 Plant" (illustrated by lantern slides), by F. V. 

 Ooville. 



"Plant Autographs" (illustrated by lantern 

 slides and experiments), by J. C. Bose. 



The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the 

 American Association of Economic Entomol- 

 ogists was held at the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, December 27 to 31, 1914. The address 

 of the president. Dr. H. T. Femald, was de- 

 livered at the first session and the program was 

 crowded with over forty papers, all of which 

 were of special interest to economic workers. 

 The section of Apiary Inspectors met at 8 p.m. 

 on December 27 and the Section of Horticul- 

 tural Inspection held its sessions at 8 p.m. 

 on December 28 and 10 a.m. on December 29. 

 Many papers of interest were presented at these 

 sessions and discussions as to methods and 

 the present status of inspection work followed. 

 A draft of a uniform state law covering nursery 

 and orchard inspection was favorably con- 

 sidered. The next annual meeting will be 

 held at Columbus, Ohio, in connection with 

 the annual meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science and the 

 executive committee was directed to call a spe- 

 cial meeting at San Francisco during the 

 summer. The officers for 1915 were elected 

 as follows : President, Professor Glenn W. Her- 

 rick, Ithaca, IST. T. ; First Vice-president, Pro- 

 fessor E. A. Cooley, Bozeman, Mont.; Second 

 Vice-president, Professor W. E. Eumsey, 

 Morgantown, W. Va. ; Third Vice-president, 

 Dr. E. F. Phillips, Washington, D. C; Secre- 

 tary, A. F. Burgess, Melrose Highlands, Mass. 

 Professor J. G. Sanders, Madison, Wis., is 

 secretary of the Section of Horticultural In- 

 spection and Mr. N. E. Shaw, Columbus, Ohio, 

 secretary of the Section on Apiary Inspection. 

 A full report of the meeting will be published 

 in the Journal of Economic Entomology. 



A COLLECTION of Cretaceous fossils has been 

 purchased by the department of geology and 

 invertebrate paleontology of the American 

 Museum of Natural History from Dr. A. 

 Schrammen, of Hildesheim, Germany. It con- 



