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ica and Section G of the American Associa- 

 tion. Dr. F. L. Stevens, of West Ealeigh, 

 North Carolina, is the president, and Dr. C. 

 L. Shear, of Washing-ton, D. C, secretary of 

 the society. 



The annual meeting of the Home Econom- 

 ics Association under the presidency of Mrs. 

 Ellen H. Richards, of the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, will be held at St. Louis 

 at the time of the meeting of the American 

 Economic Association and the American So- 

 ciological Association, December 27-30. In- 

 terest will center in the joint discussions by 

 both associations on the teaching of economies 

 in the high schools. The program of the 

 Home Economic Association meeting may be 

 secured by addressing the secretary, Benjamin 

 E. Andrews, Teachers College, Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 



The American Museum of Natural History 

 receives $25,000 by the will of the late Charles 

 E. Tilford, of New York City. 



According to a cablegram to the daily 

 papers, a ceremony in celebration of the com- 

 pletion of the Vatican observatory under the 

 direction of Father Hagen was held in the 

 papal apartment on November 17. A speech 

 was made by Cardinal Maffi, president of the 

 observatory, to which the pope replied, highly 

 commending the work of Father Hagen. 



The Field Museum of Natural History at 

 Chicago announces its intention of making a 

 study of the fresh-water, brackish and salt- 

 water shore fish of the Canal Zone during the 

 coming dry season. The study will be made 

 before the completion of the canal, in order 

 that the fish may be taken before they have 

 had a chance to cross the divide and undergo 

 the changes incident to a new environment. 



Last June Mr. Jake Gimbel, a merchant of 

 Vincennes, Indiana, made possible the Gimbel 

 expedition to British Guiana for the study of 

 the fish of the family Gymnotidse. During 

 the summer this expedition was jointly 

 equipped by Mr. Gimbel and Indiana Univer- 

 sity and on August 24 Mr. Max M. Ellis, A.M. 

 (Indiana), teaching fellow in zoology, with 

 Mr. Wm. Tucker, A.M. (Indiana), as assist- 



ant, sailed via Euebec Line for Georgetown. 

 General collections were made in the Demer- 

 ara and Essequibo rivers as well as Hubabu 

 and Palmachusia creeks, supplementing those 

 made by Dr. C. H. Eigenmann in 1908. A 

 considerable amount of time was given to ex- 

 perimental work in and about Georgetowu. 

 Messrs. Ellis and Tucker returned to the 

 United States on October 29. 



The department of plant pathology of the 

 New York State College of Agriculture an- 

 nounces the establishment of three more in- 

 dustrial fellowships, as follows : The Ten 

 Broeck fellowship, established by Wessel Ten 

 Broeck, for the investigation of the effect of 

 cement dust on the setting of fruit, injury to 

 foliage, etc. The work on this fellowship, 

 during the growing season, is conducted in a 

 field laboratory near a large cement plant at 

 Hudson, N. Y. Mr. P. J. Anderson, holder 

 of the fellowship, is a 1910 graduate of Wa- 

 bash College. The Byron fellowship, estab- 

 lished by the Byron Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion, of South Byron, N. Y., for the investi- 

 gation of the diseases of fruit trees. Special 

 attention will be given to the New York apple 

 tree canker. The holder of this fellowship is 

 Mr. Lex E. Hosier. He completes his work 

 at Wabash College January 1, 1911. The 

 Bethany-Batavia fellowship, established by the 

 Bethany-Batavia Fruit Growers' Association 

 near Batavia, N. Y., for the investigation of 

 the diseases and insect pests of orchard crops, 

 especially the diseases of apples. Particular 

 attention will be given to the use of sulphur 

 fungicides for the control of these diseases 

 and pests. This fellowship as well as the 

 Byron fellowship is established jointly in the 

 departments of plant pathology and entomol- 

 ogy. It provides for two fellows, one in ento- 

 mology and the other in plant pathology. The 

 work on this fellowship will begin in the 

 spring of 1911. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 It is announced that Mr. Andrew Car- 

 negie has given a further sum of $1,500,000 

 for the construction of buildings of the Car- 

 negie Technical Schools at Pittsburgh. 



