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District of Columbia and six foreign coun- 

 tries were represented. This enrollment 

 showed nearly 43 per cent, increase over the 

 previous session in 1908. The number of 

 states represented is very significant of the 

 fact that the American Agricultural Colleges 

 as a whole are coming to realize the benefit of 

 the sessions of the Graduate School to their 

 instructional and experimental stafl^s and to 

 American Agriculture at large. 



The faculty was composed of experts from 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 Agricultural Colleges of the United States 

 and Canada, Biological Departments of sev- 

 eral universities, the Carnegie Institution at 

 Washington and from two foreign countries; 

 Dr. J. C. Ewart of the University of Edin- 

 burgh, delivered five lectures on Animal 

 Breeding and Dr. Von Tschermak, of the 

 Koyal Imperial Agricultural College of Aus- 

 tria, delivered five lectures on Plant Breeding. 



Discussions of the latest theories and in- 

 vestigations relating to agricultural develop- 

 ment were interesting and very resultful. 

 Men in attendance at this session of the Grad- 

 uate School have become better acquainted 

 with and have a broader knowledge of the 

 progress of agricultural investigation than 

 ever before. Investigators from the north, 

 south, east and west are now much more 

 united in the problems of agriculture. 



W. H. P. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. John F. Anderson has been made di- 

 rector of the Hygienic Laboratory of the U. S. 

 Public Health and Marine Hospital Service 

 to fill the vacancy caused by the removal of 

 Dr. M. J. Eosenau to Harvard University. 



Professor William H. Walker, head of the 

 research laboratory of applied chemistry of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 has been elected president of the Electrochem- 

 ical Society. 



EoREiGN members of the Royal Society 

 have been elected as follows: Dr. Svante Ar- 

 rhenius. Dr. Jean Baptiste Edouard Bornet, 

 Dr. Paul Ehrlieh, Professor Vito Volterra and 

 Dr. August Weismann. 



Sir E. Eay Lankester has been elected a 

 foreign associate to the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences to fill the vacancy caused by the 

 death of Robert Koch. 



Professor Filehne, the Breslau pharma- 

 cologist, has been elected a foreign member of 

 the Paris Academy of Medicine. 



The Steiner prize of the Berlin Academy 

 of Sciences, which is of the value of $1,500, 

 has been awarded to M. Gaston Darboux, of 

 Paris, for his publications in geometry. 



The Astley Cooper Prize has been awarded 

 by the Guys Hospital School to Professor E. 

 Starling, F.R.S. 



Dr. Karl von der Muhll, professor of 

 mathematical physics at Basle, has been 

 given the doctorate of laws by that univer- 

 sity. 



Professor Henoch, who for many years 

 was at the head of the department of chil- 

 dren's diseases at the Berlin Charite, cele- 

 brated the completion of his ninetieth year on 

 July 16. 



Mr. John Ramsbottom has been appointed 

 assistant in the department of botany of the 

 British Museum of Natural History, where he 

 will devote himself to the fungi. 



Messrs. G. O. Smith, Waldemar Lindgren, 

 George F. Becker, S. F. Emmons and Whit- 

 man Cross will attend the eleventh Interna- 

 tional Geological Congress at Stockholm from 

 August 18 to 25 as representatives of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey. 



Among the foreign guests at the recent 

 meeting of the British Medical Association 

 were two Americans, Dr. George Crile, of 

 Western Reserve University, and Dr. R. Tait 

 MacKenzie, of the University of Pennsylvania. 



Dr. Roscoe Pound, professor of law in the 

 University of Chicago, known also to students 

 of botany for his contributions to that science, 

 has been selected to deliver the address at the 

 summer convocation of the university. This 

 will mark the close of Dr. Pound's work at 

 Chicago, as he has accepted the offer of a 

 professorship in Harvard University. 



