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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVI. No. 399. 



' The Relations of Light and Darkness to 

 Growth and Development ' : D. T. MacDougal. 



'The North American Species of Trichomanes' : 

 Elizabeth G. Britton. 



' A Green Organism Found in Water Tanks 

 and Reservoirs in Arizona ' ( by invitation ) : J. J. 

 Thoknber. 



' Mitosis of the Primary Nucleus in Synchyt- 

 rium decipiens' (by invitation) : F. L. Stevens. 



During the first nine years of its exist- 

 ence the Society has steadfastly refused 

 to permit its funds to be drawn upon for 

 any purpose except to meet the actual ex- 

 penses of administration, it being the 

 avowed purpose of the organization to use 

 its resources in the furtherance of botanical 

 research. The membership of working 

 botanists is thoroughly in sympathy with 

 this idea, and by a formal resolution at the 

 Denver meeting in August, 1901, the 

 Society declared its policy of using its in- 

 come as soon as the annual receipts amount- 

 ed to five hundred dollars. 



It was found possible to take up this pur- 

 pose of the Society at the last meeting and 

 the following enabling resolutions were 

 passed, by which the sum of five hundred 

 ■dollars is to be set aside yearly to be distrib- 

 uted as grants among the members and as- 

 ■soeiates. It is to be noted that the making 

 of the grants in question does not exhaust 

 the annual income of the Society, provision 

 being made for addition to the permanent 

 funds. The exact wording of the resolu- 

 tions is as follows : 



' GRANTS IN AID OF INVESTIGATION. 



Ttesolved: That applications for grants in aid 

 'Of investigations may be made at any time by 

 'members or associates in good standing. Such 

 ^applications should be made to the secretary, ae- 

 'companied by a detailed statement in regard to 

 Ihe work for which the grant is requested, and 

 shall be referred by the secretary to the Council. 

 The Council shall report upon all applications at 

 the next meeting subsequent to the date at which 

 they are received. The amount of any grant 

 confirmed by the Society may be drawn by the 

 applicant from the treasurer within six months 



after the meeting at which the grant was made, 

 after a proper receipt has been made therefor. 



The recipient of a grant must make a report 

 of the progress^ or of the completed results of the 

 investigations for which the grant was given, at 

 the next annual meeting, and at every succeeding 

 meeting until the work in question is finished. 

 Such report must be made in writing to the 

 Council, and may or may not be referred to the 

 Society. Any and every paper dealing with the 

 results of investigations carried out by the aid 

 of grants as above, shall bear the imprint, ' In- 

 vestigations prosecuted with the aid of a grant 

 from the Botanical Society of America.' 



Resolved: That at the next meeting of the So- 

 ciety a grant or grants in aid of investigations 

 may be made in any amount not to exceed the 

 total sum of five hundred dollars ($500) to mem- 

 bers and associates of the Society. 



D. T. MacDougal, 



Secretary. 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



THE INTERNATIONAL AERONAUTICAL 



CONGRESS. 



The third meeting of the International 

 Committee for Scientific Aeronautics, 

 appointed by the meteorologists in 1896, 

 was held at Berlin, May 20-24, and by 

 reason of the number of military and scien- 

 tific men who were invited to attend, it is 

 more widely known than either of the pre- 

 ceding meetings of the committee at Strass- 

 burg in 1898 and at Paris in 1900. The 

 Kaiser, who has done so much to advance 

 aeronautics, both practical and scientific, 

 was expected to attend the opening of the 

 Congress in the great hall of the Reichstag, 

 but, being absent from Berlin, he delegated 

 Prince Frederick Henry of Prussia as his 

 representative and telegraphed his wishes 

 for the success of the deliberations. After 

 an introduction by Professor Hergesell, 

 president of the Committee, the representa- 

 tive of the Minister of Public Instruction 

 recognized the importance of interna- 

 tional cooperation in meteorological and 

 magnetic researches, and predicted impor- 

 tant results from the present conference. 



