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SCIENCE. 



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garden; $1,075.81 for research; $2,874.78 for 

 publication; $1,121.96 for the training of gar- 

 den pupils (in addition to the allotment which 

 those holding scholarships receive and which 

 is offset by their services in the garden) ; 

 $2,480.93 in carrying out bequests made by 

 the founder of the garden; and the remainder 

 for expenses connected with the administration 

 and maintenance of revenue property. 



In connection with a popular account of the 

 garden, written by the director at the request 

 of the editor of the Popular Science Monthly 

 and published in the January niimber of that 

 magazine, it is interesting to note that a net 

 gain of 1584 species or varieties cultivated at 

 the garden was made in 1902, bringing the 

 total up to 11,551 ; 21,052 more persons visited 

 the garden in 1902 than ever before recorded, 

 bringing the total up to 112,314 for the year; 

 the herbarium, which now includes 427,797 

 specimens valued at $64,169.55, was increased 

 by the incorporation of 62,844 specimens; the 

 library, which now includes 41,224 books and 

 pamphlets valued at $67,506.30, was increased 

 by the addition of 2,516 books and 2,696 

 pamphlets; and the current list of serial pub- 

 lications received at the library has been 

 brought up to 1,160. 



The effort which the administration of the 

 garden is making to serve the three principal 

 purposes of Henry Shaw in founding the 

 garden, is evident from the expenditures above 

 recorded for the maintenance of a beautiful 

 and instructive garden; by the expenditure 

 for the instruction of garden pupils and the 

 support — within the provisions of Mr. Shaw's 

 will — of the Henry Shaw School of Botany, 

 of Washington University, in which, in addi- 

 tion to undergraduates, one candidate for the 

 Master's degree and four for the Doctor's de- 

 gree in botany are said to be registered; and 

 by the expenditures for research and the publi- 

 cation of the results of research noted above, 

 and the mention in the report of extensive 

 field study undertaken by the director in con- 

 nection with a revision of the Yuccas and re- 

 lated plants, published in the volume issued 

 last summer. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dispatches from Edinburgh report that in 

 furtherance of his educational scheme for 

 Scotland Mr. Andrew Carnegie has decided 

 to endow a trust for scientific research with a 

 fund of $5,000,000. " 



A MEETING of the executive committee of 

 the Carnegie Institution was held at Wash- 

 ington on January 24. Appropriations were 

 made exhausting the $200,000 allotted by the 

 trustees for grants. All the research assist- 

 ants have not, however, yet been appointed, 

 and those who wish to be considered in this 

 connection should apply in accordance with 

 the notice published in the issue of Science 

 for January 9. 



Dr. W. a. Cannon, A.B. (Stanford Univer- 

 sity, 1899): A.M., 1900, Ph.D. (Columbia 

 University, 1902), has been appointed resi- 

 dent investigator of the Desert Botanical 

 Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. Mr. 

 Frederick V. Coville and Dr. D. T. Mac- 

 Dougal, of the advisory board of the labora- 

 tory, started on January 24 on a tour of in- 

 spection of the region west of the Pecos Eiver 

 in Texas, along the Mexican boundary, for 

 the purpose of fixing upon a location for the 

 laboratory. 



King Oscar of Sweden and Norway has 

 conferred the Norwegian medal ' for merit ' 

 on M. Berthelot, the eminent French chemist. 



The Norman medal of the American So- 

 ciety of Civil Engineers has been awarded to 

 Professor Gardner S. Williams, of Cornell 

 University, for a paper entitled ' Experiments 

 upon the Effect of Curvature on the Flow of 

 Water in Pipes.' 



The board of control of the Naval Institute 

 has awarded the gold medal and prize to Pro- 

 fessor P. E. Alger, U.S.N., for his essay on 

 ' Gunnery in the Navy ; Causes of its Inferi- 

 ority and its Eemedy.' 



The Eumford Committee of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences has made the 

 following grants in aid of investigations in 

 light and heat: To Dr. Ealph S. Minor, of 

 Little Falls, N. Y., $250 for a research on 

 the dispersion and absorption of substances 

 for ultra-violet radiation; to Dr. Sidney D. 



