Apkil 23, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



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by automobile to Biggs to inspect tbe Eice 

 Experiment Farm at that place. That day- 

 will end the conference, after wbich tbe indi- 

 vidual delegates will spend such other time 

 and go to such other points within the state 

 as they desire. 



The following are proposed as general sub- 

 jects for discussion, under each of which such 

 subtopics may be discussed by different mem- 

 bers as their inclination may dictate: 



1. Problems of Pacific coast wheat pro- 

 duction. 



2. Improvement of barley for the Pacific 

 coast. 



3. Problems in cereal smuts. 



4. Grading, milling, malting and baking. 



5. Weed control in cereal production. 



6. Tillage and crop rotation. 



7. Insect enemies of cereals. 



A program in detail will be issued later. It 

 is expected that the discussions will cover a 

 broad field. Millers, malsters and other dealers 

 in grain, as well as agronomists, pathologists, 

 chemists and entomologists are expected to 

 attend. Among the foreign investigators ex- 

 pected to be present is Dr. F. Kjzflpin Eavn, 

 professor of plant pathology at the Royal 

 Landboh^jskolens, Copenhagen, Denmark. It 

 is requested that each one expecting to attend 

 make the fact known at once to some member 

 of the committee. Titles of papers should be 

 sent to M. A. Carleton, Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C, and any other 

 communications of inquiry concerning arrange- 

 ments for meetings and other local information 

 to Dr. J. W. Gilmore, University of California, 

 Berkeley, Cal. 



J. W. Gilmore, 

 M. A. Cableton, 

 F. S. Harris, 

 Ealph E. Smith, 

 F. D. Heald, 

 L. A. LeClero, 

 F. M. Webster, 



CommiUee 



TEE BARF SWELL LABOSATOBY 

 The Harpswell Laboratory, which has been 

 maintained for several years at South Harps- 

 well, Maine, as an institution of research, has 



been incorporated under the laws of Maine and 

 has been placed in charge of a board of ten 

 trustees. According to its charter, it is to be 

 devoted to scientific study and investigation, 

 while its constitution provides that institu- 

 tions contributing funds to a specified amount 

 will be entitled to appoint a trustee to repre- 

 sent its interests in the laboratory, the re- 

 maining trustees being elected annually by the 

 corporation. The membership of the corpora- 

 tion includes those who have conducted in- 

 vestigations there and who have paid annual 

 dues of one dollar for the current year. 



■Since its establishment, the laboratory has 

 aiiorded facilities to 79 different individuals 

 who have carried on investigations there. 

 These have represented 43 institutions of 

 learning. There have been published as based 

 wholly or in part on investigations in this 

 laboratory about sixty papers, making a total 

 of about two thousand pages, illustrated by 

 many figures and plates. 



During the last season fourteen persons 

 carried on research at the laboratory, these 

 coming from Tufts College, Wellesley College, 

 Wistar Institute, Johns Hopkins University, 

 Northwestern University, Washington Univer- 

 sity and the University of Illinois. Their in- 

 vestigations covered: The exact homologies of 

 the somites in the lower vertebrates, origin 

 of taste-buds in Elasmobranehs, the nerves of 

 the electric organs in skates, the morphology 

 of the lungs and airsacs in birds, structure 

 and functions of the ampullae of Lorenzini, 

 the development of the Piperacese, structure 

 and development of the epiphysial organs of 

 the dogfish, early development of Glava, 

 development of liver and pancreas of Acanthias, 

 the morphology of the hypophysis of Elasmo- 

 branehs and the skull of the dogfish. 



The most important addition to the equip- 

 ment for the year was a motor boat, 26 feet 

 long with a two-cylinder, ten horse-power 

 engine which puts all parts of Casco Bay 

 within easy reach. The boat which had 

 served for ten years was too small and had 

 developed some of the infirmities of age. The 

 library has been increased by several gifts and 

 now contains over a thousand volumes and 



