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lishments. University laboratories and federal 

 scientific btireaus will be well represented, so 

 that an eminently successful exhibit is as- 

 sured. 



3. A lecture by Sir Ernest Rutherford will 

 be given Friday afternoon at 3 :30, " On X-ray 

 and Gamma-ray Spectra " (at the Bureau of 

 Standards?). 



4. The three sessions of the meeting for the 

 reading of papers will be joint sessions with 

 the Electropliysics section of the American 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers. (The morn- 

 ing sessions will be in charge of the Physical 

 Society and the Friday evening session in 

 charge of the A. I. E. E.) 



5. Another feature will be the opening of 

 the newly-completed electrical building of the 

 Bureau of Standards. The apparatus exhibit 

 will be there installed. 



6. Members of the Physical Society and 

 others in attendance will be guests of the sci- 

 entific stafF of the Bureau of Standards at 

 luncheon in the west laboratory, at 1 :00 p. m., 

 on the days of the meeting. 



7. Saturday afternoon there will be an op- 

 portunity to visit points of interest in the city, 

 under the guidance of local members of the 

 A. I. E. E. It is possible also that another 

 session will be provided for the reading of 

 papers, in view of the unusual number of titles 

 presented. 



A. D. Cole, 

 Secretary 



THE AMERICAN JOUBNAL OF BOTANY 

 At the Atlanta meeting of the Botanical 

 Society of America, in January, 1914, plans 

 were perfected for the publication of a new 

 journal, known as the American Journal of 

 Botany. As stated in the introductory note 

 to No. 1, the need of increased facilities for 

 the prompt publication of the results of botan- 

 ical investigation has been keenly felt for 

 some time, and the promptness with which this 

 new opportunity has been taken advantage of, 

 as indicated by the receipt of copy for the new 

 venture, shows that the establishment of a 

 new publication is amply justified. 



An agreement has been entered into between 



the Botanical Society of America and the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden for cooperation in 

 the publication of this Journal. By the terms 

 of this agreement, which has been entered into 

 for a period of three years, financial respon- 

 sibility is assumed jointly by the Botanical 

 Society of America and the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden. The Garden names the business 

 manager and one member of the editorial 

 board, and the Botanical Society of America 

 elects the editor-in-chief and four other mem- 

 bers of the editorial board. 



The Journal is the official publication of the 

 Botanical Society of America, and business 

 offices are maintained at the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden and at 41 North Queen Street, Lan- 

 caster, Pa. 



It is the plan for the present to include con- 

 tributions to all branches of botanical science, 

 and longer papers will be especially welcome. 

 It is not the present plan to include reviews of 

 literature. Each issue will consist of about 

 fifty pages, and contributions will be welcome 

 from all botanists. There will be ten num- 

 bers to a volume. 



All correspondence with reference to pros- 

 pectus, subscriptions, advertisements, and ex- 

 changes with other publications, should be ad- 

 dressed to American Journal of Botany, 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 and correspondence concerning editorial mat- 

 ters and all manuscript submitted for publica- 

 tion should be addressed to the editor-in-chief. 

 Professor F. 0. Newcombe, G«ddes Heights, 

 Ann Arbor, Michigan. The other members of 

 the editorial board for 1914 are C. Stuart 

 Gager, business manager, Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden; Eobert A. Harper, Columbia Uni- 

 versity; Duncan S. Johnson, Johns Hopkins 

 University; L. R. Jones, University of Wis- 

 consin; George T. Moore, Missouri Botanical 

 Garden; and Edgar W. Oliver, Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden. 



THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SEBVICE 

 Thirty years ago, in 1884, the Canadian 

 government appointed a Dominion entomolog- 

 ist to advise agriculturists and others regard- 

 ing the control of insect pests. Two years 



