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E. A. Harper, and " Present Status of the 

 Problem of the Effect of Radium Eays on 

 Plant Life," by 0. Stuart Gager. 



Wednesday, September 8, was to be given 

 up to a study of the flora of sand dunes and 

 salt marshes on Crooke's Point, S. I., the ex- 

 cursion being planned in cooperation with the 

 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sci- 

 ences. On Thursday the reading of papers 

 was to be resumed, including Clifford H. Farr 

 on " Cell-Division : Bipartition and Quadri- 

 partition in Pollen Mother-Cells," and " Ecol- 

 ogy and the New Soil Fertility," by Charles 

 B. Lipman ; John K. Small on " Recent Ex- 

 plorations in Southern Florida"; H. Hus on 

 " A New Interpretation of Fascination " ; 

 P. A. Rydberg on " Life Zones in the Rocky 

 Mountains " ; Fred J. Seaver on " Bermuda 

 Fungi," and Karl F. Kellerman on " Coopera- 

 tion in the Control of Plant Diseases." 



Following tea at the mansion, an inspection 

 of the nurseries, arboretum, propagating 

 houses, conservatory range and the Bronx 

 River valley as far as Hemlock Forest wiU be 

 made. A smoker at the Faculty Club, Colum- 

 bia University, will be held in the evening. On 

 Friday, September 10, the entire day will be 

 devoted to a visit to the pine barrens of New 

 Jersey, under the guidance of the field com- 

 mittee of the Torrey Botanical Club. On 

 Saturday the delegates will visit the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Jacques Loeb, of the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute for Medical Research, has been elected a 

 foreign fellow of the Linnean Society, London. 



Professor W. A. Bone has been elected 

 president of the chemistry section of the Brit- 

 ish Association at the meeting held in Man- 

 chester this week, taking the place of Pro- 

 fessor H. B. Baker who is unavoidably pre- 

 vented from attending the meeting. 



The South African medal, founded by the 

 British Association in 1905, for scientific re- 

 search in South Africa, was awarded at the 

 Pretoria meeting of the South African Asso- 



ciation, to Mr. C. P. Lounsbury for his ento- 

 mological investigations. 



Professor J. C. Arthur, who has been in 

 college and experiment-station work for nearly 

 forty years, and for the last twenty-eight 

 years has held the chair of professor of veget- 

 able physiology and pathology in Purdue Uni- 

 versity and chief of the botanical department 

 of the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, retires on the first of September to be- 

 come professor emeritus of botany in the same 

 institution under the provisions of the Car- 

 negie Foundation. He will continue the re- 

 searches on plant rusts which have been in 

 progress for a number of years. His successor 

 in the experiment station will be Professor H. 

 S. Jackson, of Corvallis, Ore. 



The Experiment Station Record states that 

 there has been held at the Iowa College of 

 Agriculture a special convocation in honor of 

 those members of the faculty who have been 

 in service for at least a quarter of a century. 

 The guests of honor were Vice-president E. W, 

 Stanton, in service since 1874; General J. R. 

 Lincoln, commandant, Henry Knapp, secre- 

 tary, both in service since 1883; A. A. Ben- 

 nett, professor emeritus of chemistry, in serv- 

 ice since 1885, and Dr. L. H. Pammel, pro- 

 fessor of botany and botanist, in service since 

 1889. 



It is stated in Nature that the sum of £140 

 has been given to the Royal Society of Arts 

 by Mr. R. Le Neve Foster for the purpose of 

 founding a prize in commemoration of his 

 father, Mr. Peter Le Neve Foster, who was 

 secretary of the society from 1853 to 1879. 

 The council has decided to offer the prize 

 (consisting of £10 and the society's silver 

 medal) for a paper on "Zinc: Its Production 

 and Industrial Applications." 



The Vienna Academy of Sciences has made 

 a grant of about $800 to Professor E. Poech 

 to enable him to conduct anthropological re- 

 searches among the various races comprising 

 the Russian prisoners of war. 



It is stated in Terrestrial Magnetism that 

 M. Lecointe, director of the Royal Observatory 

 of Belgium, at Uccles, near Brussels, is at 



