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tional building is now under construction. 

 The equipment has been greatly improved 

 through provision for more thorough deep- 

 water dredging operations. Exceptionally fine 

 opportunities are presented for the collection 

 of class material as well as for systematic and 

 ecological study. Information in regard to the 

 station will be supplied by the director, Trevor 

 Kincaid, University of Washington, Seattle, 

 Wash. 



The following resolution with reference to 

 the chestnut blight disease was presented by 

 Professor John W. Harshberger at the general 

 meeting of the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety and unanimously adopted on April 22, 

 1911: 



Whereas, there has appeared in the eastern 

 United States a destructive fungous disease of 

 the chestnut tree, known as the chestnut blight, 

 which as a disease in epidemic form threatens to 

 destroy the native chestnut throughout North 

 America, be it 



Hesolved, that the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety in general meeting assembled heartily sup- 

 ports appropriate legislation in Pennsylvania, in 

 other states, or by the national government look- 

 ing to the eradication of the disease by the estab- 

 lishment of a quarantine, or by other more drastic 

 measures of destroying the diseased trees along 

 the outposts of the infected areas, and be it 



Mesolved, that the members of the national 

 Congress and the members of the several state 

 legislatures are requested to adopt such legisla- 

 tion, as above mentioned, and appropriate suffi- 

 ciently large sums of money with the view of 

 stamping out the disease before it reaches the 

 main body of chestnut timber in the southern and 

 southwestern deciduous forests of our country, 

 and it is 



Mesolved, that the members of the American 

 Philosophical Society will support the movement 

 begun in Pennsylvania looking to the eradication 

 of the disease from our too rapidly disappearing 

 forest areas. 



The London correspondent of the Journal 

 of the American Medical Association writes 

 that the National League for Physical Educa- 

 tion and Improvement has proposed that the 

 London memorial to the late King Edward, 

 whose great interest in sanitary problems is 

 well known, should take the form of a public 



health museum. In a recent conference of 

 health-promoting institutions, a discussion on 

 the need of coordination disclosed the exist- 

 ence of over eighty such national agencies in 

 London and of a large number of local agen- 

 cies in London and throughout the country. 

 It was shown that these suffered much both in 

 finance and work from overlapping, from 

 separation of ofEces and staff and from lack 

 of coordination. The striking success of the 

 tuberculosis exhibition opened in Dublin and 

 then transferred to the Irish Village in the 

 exhibition at London and tp other places 

 throughout the country, demonstrated the 

 great interest taken by the public in sanitary 

 questions. It is proposed to erect a popular 

 museum which should accommodate a perm.a- 

 nent collection and also furnish duplicate 

 material for the equipment of traveling vans. 

 It should be a model in constant and close 

 relation with provincial museums to which it 

 would probably give birth. It might also be- 

 come a loan center for the distribution of 

 replicas of its models and diagrams for cir- 

 culation among schools and institutions. The 

 building should also form a nucleus for the 

 coordination of the various health-promoting 

 institutions, both metropolitan and national. 

 Eor this purpose, it should include the follow- 

 ing: Two or three meeting halls of different 

 sizes, ten or twelve committee rooms, central 

 offices, a library and reading rooms, lecture 

 rooms, workshop and draftsman's room. The 

 cost of maintenance would be met, to some 

 extent, by the rental of suites of offices, haUs, 

 committee rooms, especially by health-pro- 

 moting conferences and institutions, and to 

 some extent by small fees for courses of in- 

 struction. In the main, however, instruction 

 must be given at a low cost, fees being charged 

 only when they will guarantee greater interest 

 in those who pay, and being reduced to such 

 a level as will admit of the greatest possible 

 use of the facilities provided. This would be 

 sufficient grounds for appealing for subscrip- 

 tions to trades unions, friendly societies, in- 

 surance companies and the general public. 

 An appeal will be made for a memorial sum 

 of $500,000 and a subscription of $25,000 a 



