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our next meeting at the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, in connection with the twenty-fifth 

 anniversary celebration of the Garden. This 

 celebration will be held Thursday, October 15, 

 and Friday, October 16. It is planned to 

 have a meeting of the Botanists of the Central 

 States for the reading of papers and the trans- 

 action of business on Saturday, October 17. 

 It is believed that this meeting, combined as 

 it is with the very important celebration of 

 the Botanical Garden, will be one of the most 

 important meetings of American botanists 

 within recent years. 



Members desirous of presenting papers at 

 this session should send to the undersigned as 

 soon as possible the titles of such papers, indi- 

 cating also the time and facilities needed for 

 their presentation. Such titles must be in the 

 hands of the undersigned by October 1, since 

 it is the intention to mail the final program 

 of the meeting by October 5. 



Through the courtesy of the director, Dr. 

 George T. Moore, it is learned that the Botan- 

 ists of the Central States are to be the guests 

 of the Missouri Botanical Garden at luncheon 

 on Saturday, October 17. 



Henry C. Cowles, 



Secretary 



The University of Chicago, 

 September 10, 1914 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Priederich von Muller, professor of 

 medicine at Munich, has been elected rector 

 of the university for the year 1914^15. 



Dr. Gustav a. Schwalbe, professor of anat- 

 omy at Strassburg, celebrated on August 1, 

 his seventieth birthday. 



The sixth session of the Maebride Lakeside 

 Laboratory has closed after a successful sum- 

 mer's work. The teaching staff this year was 

 as follows: In botany, Professor Thomas H. 

 Maebride, acting director, James E. Gow, of 

 Coe College, and A. F. Ewers, of McKinley 

 High School, St. Louis; in geology, J. E. 

 Carman, University of Cincinnati; in zoology, 

 T. C. Stephens, Morningside College, and 

 "Wayne Hagan, Clinton High School. L. H. 

 Pammel, of Ames, and B. H. Bailey, of Coe 

 College, gave special courses of lectures. 



The American Fisheries Society will hold 

 its forty-fourth annual meeting in Washing- 

 ton, D. C, from September 30 to October 3, at 

 the new National Museum building. The 

 program includes papers on aquatic biology, 

 parasites and diseases of fishes, utilization of 

 fisheries products, fish culture and commer- 

 cial fisheries. The society numbers over 700 

 members. Professor Henry B. Ward, of the 

 University of Illinois, is president, and Pro- 

 fessor Eaymond C. Osburn, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, secretary. 



The British Board of Agriculture and Fish- 

 eries has awarded research scholarships in 

 agricultural and veterinary science of the an- 

 nual value of £150, tenable for three years, as 

 follows : Agricultural science, J. LI. Evans 

 (Wales), S. M. Wadham (Cantab.), J. W. 

 Munro (Edinburgh). Veterinary Science, E. 

 Daubney, A. H. Adams. The board has also 

 awarded Mr. E. W. Jeffreys (Wales) an agri- 

 cultural scholarship tenable for two years to 

 fill a vacancy. 



The president of the British Board of Trade 

 has appointed a committee to consider and ad- 

 vise as to the best means of obtaining for the 

 use of British industry sufiicient supplies of 

 chemical products, colors and dyestuffs of kinds 

 hitherto largely imported from countries from 

 which they can not now be obtained. The 

 Lord Chancellor will be chairman of the com- 

 mittee, and the following is a list of the other 

 members : Dr. George T. Beilby, F.K.S., Dr. J. 

 J. Dobbie, F.E.S., Mr. David Howard, Mr. Ivan 

 Levinstein, Professor Raphael Meldola, D.Sc, 

 F.R.S., Mr. Max Muspratt, Professor W. H. 

 Perkin, Ph.D., D.Sc, F.E.S., Mr. Milton 

 Sharp, Sir Arthur J. Tedder, Mr. Joseph 

 Turner, Mr. T. Tyrer, together with Mr. John 

 Anderson, of the National Health Insurance 

 Commission, and a representative of the Board 

 of Trade. The secretary of the committee is 

 Mr. F. Gossling of the Patent Office. 



Dr. H. Flournoy, resident psychiatrist at 

 the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic of Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital and a member of the med- 

 ical reserves of the Swiss army, has left Balti- 

 more to return to Switzerland, in answer to 

 the call for reservists. 



