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whom it was possible to do a favor. This was 

 his pleasure. No trouble was too great or 

 time-consuming; no return, not even thanks, 

 was expected. No man ever had fewer ene- 

 mies: his friends equalled in number those 

 who knew him. When at last the heavy- 

 weight of disease was laid upon him he met 

 it as a man should. No querulous repining: 

 regret only that his work must stop ; his solace 

 that others would carry the good work on. 

 Mother earth, that he loved well to measure 

 and compute, will give him sleep; to him. the 

 peaceful end is surely a release. 



Harold Jacoby 



COMMISSION ON AGBIOVLTVBAL 

 RESEARCH 

 At the meeting of the Association of Amer- 

 ican Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 

 Stations at Baton Rouge last November a 

 resolution was adopted instructing the in- 

 coming president of the association to appoint 

 a commission of five persons to inquire into 

 and report to the association on the organiza- 

 tion and policy that should prevail in the ex- 

 penditure of public money provided for ex- 

 perimentation and research in agriculture. It 

 was provided that two of these persons should 

 represent the research efforts of the associa- 

 tion; one the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, and two the scientific men not 

 connected with agricultural investigations. 

 The president of the association. Dean L. H. 

 Bailey, of Cornell University, has appointed 

 the following commission, the first two repre- 

 senting persons outside agricultural investiga- 

 tions, the second two representing the associa- 

 tion, and the last representing the Department 

 of Agriculture: David Starr Jordan, president 

 of Leland Stanford University, chairman; 

 Carroll D. Wright, president of Clark College; 

 H. P. Armsby, director Pennsylvania State 

 College Agricultural Experiment Station; W. 

 H. Jordan, director of the New York State 

 Experiment Station; Gifford Pinchot, for- 

 ester, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF 

 PHYSIOLOGISTS 



The seventh International Physiological 

 Congress will be held under the presidency of 

 Professor A. Kossel in the Physiological Insti- 

 tute of the University of Heidelberg August 

 13, 14, 15 and 16. 



Titles of papers and an exact list of appa- 

 ratus or other articles required for demonstra- 

 tions should be sent to the Physiological Insti- 

 tute at Heidelberg not later than June 15. 



From August 12 to August lY there will be 

 held an exhibition of apparatus, by members 

 of the congress, directors of physiological in- 

 stitutes and mechanics recommended by mem- 

 bers or directors. 



The official languages are Erench, German, 

 Italian and English. The general secretaries 

 are Professors Dastre (Paris), Eano (Flor- 

 ence), Griitzner (Tiibingen), Porter (Boston) 

 and Sherrington (Liverpool). 



THE CENTRAL BRANCH OF THE AMERICAN 

 SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS 

 There will be held at the University of 

 Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., on March 28, 29 

 and 30, 1907, meetings of the Central Branch 

 of the American Society of Naturalists in 

 affiliation with the Central Branch of the 

 American Society of Zoologists, the Associa- 

 tion of American Anatomists and the Central 

 Branch of the American Society of Botanists. 

 Each of these societies have an interesting 

 program of papers and demonstrations. 

 Papers will be read during the morning ses- 

 sions on March 28 and 29 and demonstrations 

 will be given in the afternoons. On Thurs- 

 day evening, March 28, there will be a smoker 

 for the affiliated societies and on Friday even- 

 ing a dinner of the Naturalists and affiliated 

 societies, at which time the address of the 

 president of the Central Branch of Natural- 

 ists will be given by Professor J. Playfair 

 McMurrich, of the University of Michigan. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Lord Lister will celebrate his eightieth 

 birthday on April 4, and it is proposed that 

 to mark this event his scientific papers be col- 



