November 22, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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considers' to be not only the cause of fruit 

 disease and canker formation, tut also of the 

 familiar leaf spot so prevalent upon apple 

 trees. F. L. Stevens 



N. C. Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 West Raleigh, N. C, 

 September 16, 1907 



THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS 



The American Society of Naturalists will 

 hold its annual meeting at Chicago during 

 Convocation "Week. The topic of the discus- 

 sion, the date of which is the afternoon of 

 Tuesday, December 31, will be : " Cooperation 

 in Biological Eesearch." The speakers will 

 be as follows: 



Dr. Frank R. Lillie. 



Dr. William Trelease. 



Dr. H. H. Donaldson. 



Dr. Simon Flexner. 



Dr. W. H. Howell. 



Dr. James R. Angell. 



The dinner and the address of the president. 

 Professor J. Playfair McMurrich, of the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto, are arranged for the even- 

 ing of December 31. The exact hour and 

 place for the discussion and also for the din- 

 ner will be given in a later announcement. 

 Edward L. Thorndike, 



Secretary 

 Teachers College, 

 Columbia Univeesitt 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The National Academy of Sciences is hold- 

 ing its autumn meeting at Columbia Univer- 

 sity, New York City, this week. 



The trustees of the Carnegie Foundation 

 for the Advancement of Teaching held their 

 annual meeting at the offices of the founda- 

 tion in New York City on November 20. 



The Eastern Branch of the American So- 

 ciety of Zoologists meet at New Haven on 

 December 26, 27 and 28. 



The winter meeting of the Bibliographical 

 Society of America will be held in Chicago, 

 December 30-31. The discussion of " The 

 present problems of the bibliography of sci- 



ence," will be opened by Dr. Cyrus Adler, of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



The New York State Teachers' Science 

 Association will meet at Ithaca on December 

 27 and 28. 



The Central Passenger Association reports 

 that card orders will not be required in the 

 territory of the Central Passenger Associa- 

 tion, but that tickets at the reduced fare, for 

 the Chicago meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science and 

 affiliated societies, have been made available to 

 any applicant. Card orders, therefore, are 

 necessary only in the territory of the Trunk 

 Line Association. 



On the occasion of the dedication of its new 

 natural history museum the Senckenberg Nat- 

 ural History Society of Frankfort elected sev- 

 eral corresponding members, including Dr. 

 Hermon C. Bumpus, director of the American 

 Museum of Natural History and Dr. E. Ray 

 Lankester, director of the British Museum of 

 Natural History. 



The Anders-Eetzius medal, bestowed every 

 five years on an anatomist or a physiologist, 

 has been awarded to Professor G. Schwalbe, 

 of Strassburg. 



A PORTRAIT of Professor Arthur Schuster 

 has been presented to Manchester University. 

 It wiU be remembered that Professor Schuster 

 recently retired from the active duties of the 

 chair of physics. 



Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, state health com- 

 missioner of Pennsylvania, has been appointed 

 by the Secretary of the Treasury to represent 

 this country as an official delegate to the Third 

 International Sanitary Convention of the 

 American Republics, to be held in the City 

 of Mexico, December 2. 



President David Starr Jordan, of Stan- 

 ford University, will lecture under the aus- 

 pices of the New York Board of Education 

 at Cooper Union on November 23. The sub- 

 ject is " The Human Harvest — a Study of 

 the Biological Effects of War." 



On Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 p.m., begin- 

 ning on November 12, Dr. Gary N. Calkins 

 is giving a course of Lowell lectures on " The 



