OCTOBEE 31, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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3:15 P.M. Ascent of Tumamoe Hill: Or Drive to 

 Cactus Garden of the University of Arizona. 

 Exhibition of Publications. 



In the evening forty scientific men were 

 the guests of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington at dinner. Brief addresses were 

 made by Geh. Professor Engler, director of 

 the Royal Garden of Berlin, Professor E. H. 

 Forbes, director of the U. S. Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station of Arizona, Professor B. E. 

 Livingston, director of the Laboratory for 

 Plant Physiology of Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, Dr. Eduard Ruebel, of Zurich, and Dr. 

 D. T. MacDougal. Congratulatory telegrams 

 from President Woodward, Professor V. M.. 

 and Mrs. E. S. Spaulding and others were 

 read. The members of the International 

 Phytogeographie Society also presented testi- 

 monials of plate to Professor H. C. Oowles, 

 Dr. Geo. E. Nichols and Dr. Geo. D. Fuller. 



The members of the society had been the 

 guests of the Carnegie Institution during the 

 previous week at the Coastal Laboratory at 

 Carmel, California, and at the Salton Sea. 

 During the week following the anniversary 

 date, subsistence, tentage and transportation 

 were furnished to a party of thirty traversing 

 the desert to the base of the Santa Catalina 

 Mountains, and making the ascent to the 

 summit of Mt. Lemmon and the Montane 

 plantation. Ample opportunity was given for 

 observations and discussion of factors affect- 

 ing distribution, including temperature and 

 evaporation gradients, origin and develop- 

 ment of formations and the physical and 

 physiological facts implied in conceptions of 

 chaparral, desert, steppe, forest, etc. 



The establishment of the Desert Laboratory 

 was authorized by the trustees of the Car- 

 negie Institution late in 1902. Messrs. F. V. 

 Coville and D. T. MacDougal selected a site 

 at Tucson in February, 1903, and after citi- 

 zens had contributed two hundred acres of 

 land and other concessions a laboratory was 

 erected and Dr. W. A. Cannon as resident in- 

 vestigator took over the building and began 

 work in September, 1903. 



The department of botanical research was 

 created by the trustees in December, 1905, and 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal was appointed director 

 with headquarters at the Desert Laboratory. 

 The equipment has been extended to include 

 the Coastal Laboratory at Carmel, Calif., ex- 

 perimental plantations at various places and 

 the department sustains relations with a large 

 number of collaborators in various institutions. 



TEE WILLIAM H. WELCS FUND OF TEE 

 JOENS EOPKINS MEDICAL SCEOOL 



The General Education Board, endowed 

 by Mr. John D. Eockefeller, has appropriated 

 $1,400,000 for the Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School to establish an endowment to be known 

 as the William H. Welch fund, in honor of 

 Dr. Welch, to whom the organization and 

 development of the school are in a large meas- 

 ure due. The objects of the fund are described 

 in a statement given out by the Rev. F. T. 

 Gates, secretary of the General Education 

 Board, as follows: 



Since the opening of the Johns Hopkins Med- 

 ical School in the early nineties, it has been uni- 

 versally conceded that the teaching of the under- 

 lying medical sciences, namely, anatomy, physiol- 

 ogy, pathology and pharmacology, must be placed 

 in the hands of men devoting their entire time to 

 teaching and research in their subjects. 



As the clinical branches are more extensive and 

 more complicated than the above-mentioned under- 

 lying sciences, the medical faculty of the Johns 

 Hopkins University has become convinced that it 

 is fully as important that the clinical subjects 

 should be cultivated and taught by men freed from 

 the distraction involved in earning their living 

 through private practise. 



The trustees of the Johns Hopkins University 

 and the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the medical 

 faculty of the Johns Hopkins University united in 

 requesting of the General Education Board funds 

 that would enable them to reorganize the depart- 

 ments of medicine, surgery and pediatrics so that 

 the professors and their associates in the clinic 

 and the laboratories should be able to devote their 

 entire time to their work. 



In making the gift the General Education 

 Board has placed absolutely no restriction upon 

 the freedom of these men. They will henceforth 

 be in position to do any service that either science 

 or humanity demands. They are free to see and 

 treat any one, whether inside or outside the hos- 



