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ter, and in fact brings the work fairly up to 

 the present. The volumes have the appear- 

 ance of those which preceded them, and the 

 typography and illustrations are of the high 

 order with which we were familiar in the 

 earlier volumes. The colored plates, which 

 are quite lavishly used, are very fine, indeed; 

 in fact they are not to be excelled anywhere 

 in works of this class. Many of the black illus- 

 trations are from photographs which have 

 been reproduced with unusual fidelity. In the 

 test the topics which attract one on account of 

 full treatment are: Adiantum, where many 

 additions are made; Alsophila, to which two 

 beautiful illustrations are added; Aquatic 

 Plants, covering eight pages, and including 

 five fine photographs; Asplenium, with forty 

 figures, and covering thirteen pages; Bedding 

 Plants, nine pages; Cadi, eight pages; Chrys- 

 anthemum, ten pages; Cypripedium, twelve 

 pages; Ferns, six pages; Landscape Garden- 

 ing, eleven pages; Sphingidae, six pages; 

 Tulipa, four pages. 



Charles E. Bessey. 

 University of Nebraska. 



THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie's great gift of $10,- 

 000,000 for scientific research has beeen trans- 

 ferred to a corporation to be known as 'The 

 Carnegie Institution.' The original incor- 

 porators are Secretary Hay, Dr. D. C. Gilman, 

 lately president of Jolins Hopkins Uni- 

 versity and director of the Washington Me- 

 morial Institution; the Hon. Clias. D. Wal- 

 cott, director of the II. S. Geological Survey 

 and president of the Board of Trustees of the 

 Washington Memorial Institution; Dr. John 

 S. Billings, U. S. A. (retired), director of the 

 New York Public Library; the Hon. Edward 

 D. White, associate justice of the Supreme 

 Court of the United States, and the Hon. 

 Carroll D. Wright, U. S. Commissioner of 

 Labor. The original incorporators will select 

 a board of from 27 to 30 trustees. 



The preamble of the articles of incorpora- 

 tion is as follows: 



We, the undersigned, persons of full age and 

 citizens of the United States and a majority of 

 whom are citizens of the District of Columbia, be- 



ing desirous to establish and maintain in the City 

 of Washington, in the spirit of Washington, an 

 institution for promoting original research in 

 science, literature and art, do hereby associate 

 ourselves as a body corporate for said purposes 

 under an act to establish a code of law for the 

 District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1901, 

 Sections 599 to 604 inclusive. 



The objects of the institution, in addition 

 to the promotion of research, are set forth as 

 follows : 



To acquire, hold and convey real estate and 

 other property necessary for the purpose of the 

 institution and to establish general and specific 

 funds. 



To conduct, endow and assist investigation in 

 any department of scientific literature or art, 

 and to this end to cooperate with governments, 

 universities, colleges, technical schools, learned 

 societies and individuals. 



To appoint committees of experts to direct 

 special lines of research. 



To publish and distribute documents, to con- 

 duct lectures and to hold meetings. 



To acquire and maintain a library and, in gen- 

 eral, to do and perform all things necessary to 

 promote the objects of the institution. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Some account of the recent meeting of the 

 American Society of Naturalists and the 

 afliliated societies will be found at the begin- 

 ning of the present issue of Science. The ad- 

 dress of the president. Professor Sedgwick, is 

 also printed above. It may be added that the 

 society took action commending a national 

 board of health and the preservation of the 

 remains of the cliff-dwellings in Arizona. The 

 sum of $50 was appropriated toward the Uni- 

 versity table at the Naples Zoological Station. 

 A committee was appointed, consisting of 

 Professors Minot (chairman), Sedgwick, Cat- 

 tell, Wilson and McGee, to confer with a sim- 

 ilar committee to be appointed by the natur- 

 alists of the Central and Western States in 

 regard to the relations of the two societies. 

 The oflicers elected for next year are as fol- 

 lows: President, J. McKeen Cattell, Columbia 

 University; Vice-Presidents, C. D. Wolcott, 

 U. S. Geological Survey, L. 0. Howard, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, and D. P. Penhal- 

 low, MeGill University; Secretary, E. G. Har- 



