June 19, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



963 



ting guilds, 75,000 plants of the Japanese 

 rush and 380,000 plants of the Japanese sedge. 

 It was found necessary to increase these quan- 

 tities by propagation, but car-load lots have 

 now been sent to points in Texas, Louisiana, 

 South Carolina and California, where con- 

 tracts have been made for the planting of trial 

 areas under normal field conditions. 



BAMBOO INTRODUCTION 



The timber bamboos of the Orient are 

 among the most profitable plant cultures of 

 the orientals. Scattering groves of these 

 plants in America have demonstrated that 

 they can be grown profitably on land that is 

 not now occupied by crops, such as the " cane- 

 brake " lands of the south. The uses in this 

 country to which' bamboos can be put are be- 

 ing studied. Early introductions into the 

 plant introduction garden at Chico, Cal., have 

 been growing successfully and an explorer has 

 been appointed to get up a shipment of the 

 best timber forms and import them the com- 

 ing spring. Hardier forms than the Japanese 

 have been found in China, drought resistant 

 forms are being ordered from India, and the 

 tropical giant forms will be secured from the 

 planters in Porto Eico. 



Charles E. Bessey 



The Univeesity of Nebeaska 



THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL 

 ASSOCIATION 



The National Educational Association 

 meets at Cleveland Ohio, from June 29 to 

 July 3, under the presidency of Mr. Edwin 

 G. Cooley, of Chicago. The program of the 

 general sessions is as follows: 



Monday Afternoon, June 29 

 Addresses of welcome by Hon. Tom L. Johnson, 

 mayor of city of Cleveland, Ohio, and by Dr. 

 Charles S. Howe, president of Chamber of Com- 

 merce, Cleveland Ohio. 



Response by William 0. Thompson, president of 

 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 



Report of Educational Progress for the Year, 

 by Charles F. Thwing, president of Western Re- 

 serve University, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Monday Evening, June 29 

 Annual address of the president, Joseph Swain, 

 president of Swarthmore College. 



" Compulsory Education in Industries in the 

 Schools of London," by Cloudesley S. H. Brereton, 

 divisional inspector for the London Council, Lon- 

 don. (Appointment provisional.) 



" Adaptation of the Public School to Industrial 

 Ends," by Andrew S. Draper, commissioner of 

 education for the state of New York, Albany, N. Y. 



Tuesday Evening, June 30 

 " The Rein and Spur," by J. C. Willis, president 



of Louisville University, Louisville, Ky. 



'■ Negro Education and the Nation," by Booker 



T. Washington, president of Tuskegee Institute, 



Tuskegee, Ala. 



" The Function of Education in a Democracy," 



by Martin 6. Brumbaugh, superintendent of ■ 



schools, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Wednesday Afternoon, July 1 

 " Reconcilement of Cross Purposes in Education 



of Women " by Sarah Louise Arnold, dean of 



Simmons College, Boston, Mass. 

 " The School and the Immigrant Child," by 



Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago, 111. 



" The School and the Practise of Ethics," by 



Ella Flagg Young, principal of Chicago Normal 



School, Chicago, 111. 



Friday Morning, July 3 



" The Personal Touch in Teaching," by Andrew 

 F. West, dean of the Graduate School, Princeton 

 University, Princeton, N. J. 



" Personal Power of the Teacher in Public 

 School Work," by William H. Maxwell, superin- 

 tendent of schools. New York City. 



Those announced to read papei-s before the 

 department of higher education are the presi- 

 dent of the department. Dr. Oscar J. Craig, 

 and Professors E. J. Alley, Charles Eordyce, 

 David S. Snedden, W. H. Crawford and W. 

 IST. Stearns. Those announced to read papers 

 before the department of science instruction 

 'are Messrs. E. H. Whitbeck, N. M. Eenniman, 

 Eobert A. Millikan and Miss Martha K. 

 Genthe. An evening session will be addressed 

 by Professor L. H. Bailey and Mr. Gifford 

 Pinchot. 



THE HANOVER MEETING OF THE AMERI- 

 CAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE 

 With the issue of Science for May 29 there 

 was distributed the preliminary announce- 

 ment of the special summer meeting of the as- 





