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Burton dealing with the place of the agricul- 

 tural instructor. A third discussion on Bac- 

 terial Diseases in Plants will be opened by 

 Professor M. C. Potter and further contribu- 

 tions to the consideration of the question 

 have been promised by Mr. H. Priestley 

 (Bacterial Diseases of Swedes and Celery), 

 Mr. F. T. Brooks (Bacterial Gum Diseases), 

 Dr. G. H. Pethybridge (Bacterial Disease of 

 the Potato Plant in Ireland), Mr. G. T. 

 Malthouse (Experiments on the Wart Dis- 

 ease of Potatoes), and Mr. A. Horn (Potato 

 Disease). A popular lecture by Mr. A. D. 

 Hall will discuss the soils and farming of the 

 Sovith Downs. Papers will also be contributed 

 by Professor A. T. Wood, on " The Inherit- 

 ance of Strength in Wheat"; Mr. B. T. P. 

 Parker and Mr. V. P. Hillier, on " Cider 

 Sickness " ; Mr. S. U. Pickering, on " The Ef- 

 fects of Grass on Apple Trees " ; Mr. J. H. 

 Priestley and Mr. E. C. Knight, on " The Ef- 

 fect of High Tension Electric Discharges and 

 Current Electricity on Plant Respiration " ; 

 Mr. C. C. Hurst, on " The Application of 

 Genetics to Horse-breeding " ; Mr. J. Wilson, 

 on " The Inheritance of Milk Yield in 

 Cattle " ; Mr. J. Hindrick, on " The Effects of 

 Ventilation on the Temperature and Carbon 

 Dioxide of the Air of Byres " ; Mr. J. Porter, 

 on " Suggestions Relating to the Existing 

 System of Imperial Avoirdupois Weights." 



Bishop Welldon will preside over Section 

 L (Educational Science), and proposes to 

 take in his presidential address a general re- 

 view of the existing educational system in 

 Great Britain, particularly in England, with 

 a view of suggesting some reforms in educa- 

 tion, elementary, secondary and academical. 

 He has been directly associated at different 

 times with each of these three branches of edu- 

 cation, as a fellow and tutor of his college, as 

 headmaster of two public schools, and as a 

 member of an education committee since he 

 went to -Manchester. His views will, there- 

 fore, be comprehensive in character, though 

 necessarily he will be able to indicate only a 

 few of the reforms which might be consid- 

 ered desirable in our educational system. 



AUTOMATIC INCREASES IN SALARIES AT 

 TEE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 



The regents on May 9 confirmed the fol- 

 lowing recommendation of the Finance Com- 

 mittee : 



That it be of record that with the adoption 

 of the budget for 1909-10, the regents inaug- 

 urated a system of automatic increases in 

 salaries, whereby an instructor's salary is in- 

 creased automatically $100 per year from 

 $1,000 to $1,500, and the salaries of assistant 

 professors $100 a year from $1,600 up to 

 $2,000; and that the automatic increases do 

 not apply to members of the faculty below the 

 rank of instructor, nor above the rank of 

 assistant professor, and that there is no auto- 

 matic increase after instructors have arrived 

 at a salary of $1,500, and after assistant pro- 

 fessors have arrived at a salary of $2,000; 

 further, that increases are not automatic in 

 salaries of members of the faculty who are on 

 part time only, as, for instance, certain mem- 

 bers of the departments of architecture and 

 law, nor in the case of the affiliated colleges, 

 the department of agriculture, the Wilmerd- 

 ing School, etc. ; nor in the case of instructors 

 and assistant professors for a year of absence 

 on leave, the two-thirds salary while on leave 

 being based normally on the salary of the 

 previous year, unincreased; and, further, that 

 increases may, of course, be given in the eases 

 cited above, in which no automatic increase is 

 due as of right. Larger increases than of 

 $100 are of course sometimes made at the dis- 

 cretion of the president, with the approval of 

 the regents. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Paris Academy of Sciences has 

 awarded its Lalande Prize to Dr. Lewis Boss. 

 Its general prizes, each of the value of $2,000, 

 have been awarded to M. Jules Tannery, of 

 Paris, for his mathematical publications, and 

 to M. Deperet, of Lyons, for his geological 

 publications. 



The Paris Academy has elected correspond- 

 ing members as follows : Professor Levi-Ci- 

 vita, of the University of Padua, in the sec- 

 tion of mechanics; Dr. Paul Wagner, director 



