April 19, 1907] 



SCIENCE. 



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sometimes included among the scientific 

 bureaus. 



The list of appropriations for scientific pur- 

 poses is as follows: 



UNDEE THE TEEASUET DEPAKTMENT 



Hygienic Laboratory, Public Health 



and Marine Hospital Service $90,000 00 



UNDER THE NAVT DEPARTMENT 



Hydrographie Office $141,500 00 



Naval Observatory 62,390 00 



Nautical Almanac Office 21,240 00 



UNDER THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT 



Patent Office $1,288,150 00 



Geological Survey 1,476,420 00 



UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OP COMMERCE AND LABOR 



National Bureau of Standards $189,620 00 



Coast and Geodetic Surrey 992,316 40 



Bureau of Fisheries 702,760 00 



UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF AOEICULTUEE 



Weather Bureau $1,413,540 00 



Bureau of Animal Industry 1,032,480 00 



Bureau of Plant Industry 1,052,230 00 



Forest Service 2,400,000 00 



Bureau of Chemistry 697,920 00 



Bureau of Soils 206,980 00 



Bureau of Entomology 136,010 00 



Bureau of Biological Survey 52,000 00 



Office of Experiment Stations 1,013,220 00 



Emergency Appropriations: 



Cotton boll weevil investigations.. 190,000 00 

 Prevention of spread of gypsy and 



browntail moths 150,000 00 



Eradicating cattle ticks 150,000 00 



Special Appropriations : 



Survey of Appalachian and White 



Mountain watersheds 25,000 00 



Agricultural colleges, to each state 



and territory 5,000 00 



Total for the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, including building and defi- 

 ciency appropriations 9,698,590 00 



UNDER THE SMITHSONXAN INSTITUTION 



International Exchanges $ 32,000 00 



American Ethnology 43,000 00 



International Catalogue of Scientific 



Literature 5,000 00 



Astrophysical Observatory 13,000 00 



National Museum 250,080 00 



National Zoological Park 110,000 00 



Final appropriation for the new 

 building for the National Museum 1,250,000 00 



Total under the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution 1,703,080 00 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Government Printing Office, printing 



for scientific bureaus $824,450 00 



Library of Congress 616,885 00 



Botanic Gardens 29,893 73 



Army War College 24,400 00 



Naval War College 19,200 00 



Army Engineer Survey of Northern 



and Northwestern Lakes 75,000 00 



Division of Topography, Postofflce 



Department 47,900 00 



Alaskan Seal Fisheries 11,430 00 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 On the occasion of the dedication of the 

 new buildings of the Carnegie Institution 

 last week, honorary degrees were conferred by 

 the Western University of Pennsylvania on a 

 number of the foreign guests including Sir 

 Eobert Ball, Lowndean professor of astron- 

 omy and geometry in Cambridge University; 

 Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, secretary of the 

 London Zoological Society; Sir William 

 Preeee, the British electrical engineer, and 

 Dr. P. S. Archenbold, director of the Treptow 

 Observatory. 



The summer meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society will be held at Toronto, 

 June 2Y-29. The following persons will act 

 as chairmen of the various sections : 

 Physical Chemistry: W. D. Bancroft. 

 Inorganic Chemistry: C. L. Parsons. 

 Organic Chemistry: J. B. Tingle. 

 Agricultural, Sanitary and Biological Chemistry: 



F. T. Shutt. 

 Industrial Chemistry: W. H. Ellis. 



Dr. Alexander Graham Bell will shortly 

 go to England to receive the doctorate of laws 

 from Oxford University. 



Professor W. W. Keen, of Philadelphia, a 

 delegate to the Surgical Congress at Berlin, 

 has been elected an honorary member of the 

 German Surgical Society. 



J. M. Stedman, professor of entomology in 

 the University of Missouri and entomologist 

 of the Experiment Station, has been granted 



