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tary of the same is Dr. H. Hesselman, 

 Valhallavagen 25, Stockholm. 



TEE BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 

 A Brooklyn Botanic Garden is now being 

 established by the City of Greater New York 

 in cooperation with the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences. Between twenty-five and 

 thirty acres of land, south of the museum 

 building of the institute in Brooklyn, and 

 separated from Prospect Park by Platbush 

 Avenue, have been set apart for the purposes 

 of the garden, and are now being surveyed 

 and graded. A laboratory building for pur- 

 poses of investigation and instruction, together 

 with a range of experimental and public green- 

 houses, will be constructed during the coming 

 summer and autumn. For this purpose the 

 City of New York has appropriated $100,000. 

 In addition to this, friends of the garden in 

 Brooklyn have subscribed $50,000 as an endow- 

 ment, the income of which is to be used for 

 the purchase of equipment. It is intended to 

 make the new garden not only a center of 

 research, but also to give instruction to both 

 elementary and advanced classes in botany, 

 and cooperate in every feasible manner with 

 the botanical work of the public and private 

 schools of the Borough of Brooklyn. Dr. C. 

 Stuart Gager, professor of botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, has been appointed di- 

 rector of the garden and will enter on his 

 duties the first part of July. A scientific 

 staff will be gradually assembled as soon as 

 the buildings are ready for occupancy. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. George W. Hill, of Nyack, N. Y. and 

 Professor E. B. Wilson, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, have been elected foreign members of the 

 Brussels Academy of Sciences. 



The Eumford Committee of the American 

 Academy has recently made the following 

 grants in aid of research: To Professor Joel 

 Stebbins, $350, in aid of his research with the 

 selenium photometer. To Professor W. W. 

 Campbell, $125, in furtherance of the research 

 on the polariseopic study of the solar corona 

 by means of a Hartmann photometer. To Mr. 



Prank W. Very, $50, for the purchase of 

 photographic glass plates of the spectrum by 

 Higgs. To Professors C. E. Mendenhall and 

 Augustus Trowbridge, $250, in aid of their 

 research on the effect of ether drift on the 

 intensity of radiation. To Professor C. E. 

 Mendenhall, $250, in furtherance of a re- 

 search on the free expansion of gases. The 

 committee has also made a grant of $250 to 

 Professor Gilbert N. Lewis in aid of prep- 

 aration of abstracts for publication in light 

 and heat for the forthcoming International 

 Physico-chemical tables. 



Professor E. G. Conklust, of Princeton Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed to represent the 

 National Academy of Sciences at the Zoolog- 

 ical Congress at Gratz, Austria, and at the 

 meeting of the International Association of 

 Academies at Eome, Italy. 



The American Philosophical Society has 

 appointed Professor E. G. Conklin, of Prince- 

 ton University, a delegate to the eighth Inter- 

 national Zoological Congress at Gratz, Aus- 

 tria, August, 1910; Professor George L. 

 Goodale, of Harvard University, a delegate to 

 the International Congress of Botanists at 

 Brussels, May, 1910, and Professor Frederick 

 W. Putnam, of Harvard University, a delegate 

 to the Congress of Americanists in the City 

 of Mexico in September, 1910. 



Professor Sir J. J. Thomson has been nom- 

 inated to represent Cambridge University at 

 the celebration in October, 1910, of the cen- 

 tenary of the University of Berlin. 



The Biological Society of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology gave a dinner in 

 honor of Professor Wm. T. Sedgwick, on 

 March 17, prior to his departure for Europe. 

 Speeches were made by President Maclaurin, 

 Professor Talbot and Professor Porter, and 

 Professor Sedgwick replied. 



Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, 

 and Dr. Charles W. Dabney, of the Univer- 

 sity of Cincinnati, are among those who have 

 been chosen as electors for the Hall of Fame 

 of New York University. 



