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future of education in this country. Inci- 

 dentally, it would be of great advantage to 

 each of the cooperating institutions, but it 

 would be especially significant in the emphasis 

 that it would give to the fact, so often over- 

 looked, that educational institutions do not 

 exist for themselves and that their sole duty 

 is to make the best provision that can possi- 

 bly be made for those who are rising to man- 

 hood and for their successors. Under the 

 scheme of cooperation here proposed, it would 

 be possible to maintain a much stronger school 

 of applied science than either institution alone 

 could furnish, and it would be possible to keep 

 that school practically unrivalled in America — 

 and indeed, in the world. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Benjamin Osgood Peirce, since 1888 

 Hollis professor of mathematics and natural 

 philosophy in Harvard University, died from 

 disease of the heart at his home in Cambridge 

 on January 14. 



Dr. Herman M. Biggs has been appointed 

 by Governor Glynn to be commissioner of 

 health for the state of New York. 



Dr. Ernest Eutherford, Langworthy pro- 

 fessor of physics in the University of Man- 

 chester, has been made a knight. 



In the Academy of Sciences of St. Peters- 

 burg, Sir William Eamsay has been advanced 

 from a corresponding to an honorary member. 



At the annual meeting of the Federation of 

 American Societies for Experimental Biology, 

 an organization which includes the Physiologi- 

 cal Society, the Society of Biological Chem- 

 istry and the Society for Pharmacological and 

 Experimental Therapeutics, held in Philadel- 

 phia, the following officers were elected : Presi- 

 dent, Dr. Graham Lusk, New York City; Vice- 

 president, Dr. Carl Alsberg, Washington, D. 

 C; Secretary, Dr. P. A. Shaffer, St. Louis; 

 Treasurer, Dr. D. D. Van Slyke, New York 

 City, and councilors, Professor J. J. Abel, 

 Baltimore, and Professor A. B. Macallum, 

 New York, and Dr. T. B. Osborne, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



Professor W. B. Cannon, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, was elected president of the American 

 Physiological Society at the meeting in Phila- 

 delphia. 



At the thirtieth session of the American 

 Association of Anatomists held in Philadel- 

 phia at the University of Pennsylvania the 

 following officers were elected : President, Pro- 

 fessor G. Carl Huber, University of Michigan; 

 Vice-president, Professor Frederic T. Lewis, 

 Harvard Medical School; Secretary-treasurer, 

 Professor Charles E. Stockard, Cornell Medi- 

 cal College. 



At the meeting of the American Phyto- 

 pathological Society recently held at Atlanta 

 the following officers were elected: President, 

 Dr. Haven Metcalf, Washington, D. C. ; Vice- 

 president, Dr. Frank D. Kern, State College, 

 Pa. ; Counsellor, Professor H. E. Fulton, West 

 Ealeigh, N. C. 



A dinner in honor of Dr. Livingston Far- 

 rand, professor of anthropology in Columbia 

 University, who has accepted the presidency of 

 the University of Colorado, was held by his 

 colleagues at the Faculty Club, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, on January 13. 



The following new appointments of mem- 

 bers of the gardening staff at Kew are 

 quoted in Nature from the Kew Bulletin: 

 Mr. G. S. Crouch, to be assistant director of 

 horticulture in the Egyptian department of 

 agriculture; Mr. T. H. Parsons, to be curator 

 of the Eoyal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, 

 Ceylon, in succession to Mr. H. F. Macmillan, 

 who has been appointed superintendent of 

 horticulture in the department of agriculture, 

 Ceylon; Mr. C. E. F. Allen, to be curator of 

 the Botanic Garden, Port Darwin, Northern 

 Territory, South Australia, in succession to 

 Mr. N. Holtze, deceased. 



Mrs. Agnes Chase, assistant in systematic 

 agrostology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 has returned from Porto Eico where she has 

 been collecting and studying grasses for about 

 two months. Of the 123 species of grasses 

 known from the island she obtained all but 

 three, and about 40 additional species. Arthro- 

 stylidium sarmentosum Pilger, a climbing 



