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from those in Porto Rico, as a station for ex- 

 periments in sugar production has been main- 

 tained bj' private beneficence for a number of 

 years. In connection with his investigation of 

 the location of a station, Dr. Stubbs will con- 

 sider the feasibility of combining the Federal 

 station with the Hawaiian Experiment Station 

 or the agricultural department of the Kame- 

 hameha Manual Training School at Honolulu. 

 Here also the lines in which investigation is 

 most needed, the possibility of greater diversi- 

 fication of the agriculture, the expense of 

 inaugurating and maintaining experiment sta- 

 tion work, and the means of disseminating 

 information among the people will be carefully 

 inquired into. This will probably prove a 

 profitable field for investigations on the use and 

 economy of water in irrigation, since according 

 to reports received from authentic sources, in 

 no other place is so much money expended for 

 pumping water for irrigation. Some of the 

 pumps are said to be raising 30,000,000 gallons 

 of water per day from a depth of 500 feet, 

 using coal that costs $10 a ton. The expense 

 of irrigating in some cases reaches as high as 

 $125 per acre annually. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The attendance at the Bradford meeting of 

 the British Association was 1,915 distributed 

 as follows : Old life members, 267 ; new life 

 miembers, 13 ; old annual members, 297 ; new 

 annual members, 45 ; associates, 801 ; ladies, 

 483 ; foreign members, 9. The British Associa- 

 tion is fortunate in always arousing local inter- 

 est and securing a large number of associates. 

 It will be noted, however, that the attend- 

 ance of members at Bradford — 622 — was not 

 greatly in excess of the attendance at meetings 

 of the American Association, although Amer- 

 ican men of science are scattered over a much 

 wider area and undergo greater inconvenience 

 in coming together in mid-summer. 



The grants appropriated for scientific pur- 

 poses amounted to £945 and were distributed 

 as follows : Mathematics and Physics — elec- 

 trical standards (balance in hand), and £45 ; 

 seismological observations, £75 ; magnetic force 

 on board ship, £10. Chemistry — relation be- 



tween absorption spectra and constitution of 

 organic substances (balance, £6 8s. 9d. in hand); 

 wave length tables, £5 ; isomorphous sulphonic 

 derivatives of benzene, §35. Geology — erratic 

 blocks (£6 in hand) ; photographs of geological 

 interest (balance, £10 in hand) ; ossiferous caves 

 at Uphill (renewed), £5 ; underground water of 

 Northwest Yorkshire, £50 ; exploration of Irish 

 caves (renewed), £15 ; life-zones in British car- 

 boniferous rocks, £20. Zoology — table at the 

 Zoological Station, Naples, £100 ; table at the 

 Biological Laboratory, Plymouth, £20 ; index 

 generum et specierum animalium, £75 ; mi- 

 gration of birds, £10. Geography — terrestrial 

 surface waves, £5 ; changes of land-level in the 

 Phlegrsean fields, £50. Economic Science and 

 Statistics — state monopolies in other countries 

 (£13 13s. 6d. in hand) ; legislation regulating 

 women's labor, £15. Mechanical Science — 

 small screw gauge (balance in hand) and £45 ; 

 resistance of road vehicles to traction, £75. 

 Anthropology — Silchester excavation, £10 ; 

 ethnological survey of Canada, £30 ; age of 

 stone circles (balance in hand) ; photographs 

 of anthropological interest (balance of £10 in 

 hand) ; anthropological teaching, £5 ; explora- 

 tion in Crete, £145. Physiology — physiological 

 effects of peptone, £30 ; chemistry of bone 

 marrow, £15 ; suprarenal capsules in the rabbit, 

 £5. Botany — fertilization in phfeophyceae, £15 ; 

 morphology, ecology and taxonomy of podoste- 

 macese, £20. Corresponding societies — prepa- 

 ration of report, £15. 



One of the most important actions taken at 

 Bradford was a reference to the Council with a 

 favorable recommendation of a plan for the es- 

 tablishment of a section of education which 

 should deal not only with scientific education, 

 but with education as a science. The report 

 of the treasurer showed receipts of over $11,- 

 000, but the expenses of the year exceeded 

 the receipts by about $4,000. This deficit was 

 due to the fact that the Dover meeting last 

 year was rather small, while the grants were 

 as large as usual and there were some extra ex- 

 penses in connection with the visit of the French 

 Association. The items of expenditure were 

 in round numbers $5,000 for printing, $2,500 

 for salaries, $2,000 for the expenses of the Dover 

 meeting and $5,000 for scientific grants. In re- 



