May 29, 1908] 



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servation of our natural resources, with the view 

 of continued cooperation and action on the lines 

 suggested. And to this end we advise that from 

 time to time, as in his judgment may seem wise, 

 the President call the governors of the states, 

 members of Congress and others into conference. 

 We agree that further action is advisable to 

 ascertain the present condition of our natural 

 resources and to promote the conservation of the 

 same. And to that end we recommend the ap- 

 pointment by each state of a commission on the 

 conservation of natural resources, to cooperate 

 with each other and with any similar commission 

 on behalf of the federal government. 



We urge the continuation and extension of 

 forest policies adapted to secure the husbanding 

 and renewal of our diminishing timber supply, 

 the prevention of soil erosion, the protection of 

 headwaters, and the maintenance of the purity 

 and navigability of our streams. We recognize 

 that the private ownership of forest lands entails 

 responsibilities in the interests of all the people, 

 and we favor the enactment of laws looking to 

 the protection and replacement of privately owned 

 forests. 



We recognize in our waters a most valuable 

 asset of the people of the United States, and we 

 recommend the enactment of laws looking to the 

 conservation of water resources for irrigation, 

 water supply, power and navigation, to the end 

 that navigable and source streams may be brought 

 imder complete control and fully utilized for 

 every purpose. We especially urge on the federal 

 Congress the immediate adoption of a wise, active 

 and thorough waterway policy, providing for the 

 prompt improvement of our streams and con- 

 servation of their watersheds required for the 

 uses of commerce and the protection of the in- 

 terests of our people. 



We recommend the enactment of laws looking 

 to the prevention of waste in the mining and ex- 

 traction of coal, oil, gas and other minerals with 

 a view to their wise conservation for the use of 

 the people and to the protection of human life in 

 the mines. 



Let us conserve the foundations of our pros- 

 perity. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The house of representatives concurring 



with the senate and by a unanimous vote, has 



granted an annuity for life of $125 a month 



to the widows of the late Major James Car- 



roll, surgeon, U. S. army, and the late acting 

 assistant surgeon, Jesse W. Lasear, whose 

 lives were sacrificed in the study of yellow . 

 fever in Cuba. 



Professor William James, who has been 

 giving a course of lectures on philosophy at 

 Oxford University, received there the degree 

 of doctor of science on May 12. 



Dr. Edward S. Morse has been elected a 

 member of the Astronomical Society of Bel- 

 gium. 



Mr. Francis Darwin, F.E.S., has been 

 nominated the representative of Cambridge 

 University at a meeting convened by the 

 Linnean Society of London, to be held in 

 July in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary 

 of the reading of the joint essay by Charles 

 Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace " On the 

 Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and 

 on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species 

 by Natural Means of Selection." 



Mr. a. E. Shipley, F.E.S., was elected 

 president of the Association of Economic 

 Biologists, which held its sixth annual meet- 

 ing at University College, last month. 



On May 12 Professor F. T. Trouton began 

 a course of two lectures at the Eoyal Institu- 

 tion on " Why Light is believed to be a 

 Vibration " and " What it is which Vibrates." 

 The Friday evening discourse on May 15 was 

 delivered by Dr. H. T. Bulstrode on "The 

 Past and Future of Tuberculosis," and on 

 May 22 by Professor J. C. KaptejTi on " Re- 

 cent Researches in the Structure of the Uni- 

 verse." 



The Croonian Lectures before the Royal 

 College of Physicians, of London, will be de- 

 livered June 18 to 30, by Dr. A. E. Garrod, 

 on " Inborn Errors in Metabolism." 



The German emperor has presented Pro- 

 fessor Dornfeld, head of the German Arche- 

 ological Institute at Athens, with a sum of 

 $1,000 for the purpose of starting excavations 

 on the site of the ancient Pylos. 



E. C. Parker, assistant agriculturist at the 

 Minnesota Experiment Station, will sail on 

 June 30 to become expert adviser to the gov- 

 ernment officials of Manchuria. With W. H. 



