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age the growing of other crops, diversification 

 farms have been established. This work is 

 being handled by the agrostologist of the de- 

 partment. The results of Mr. O. F. Cook's 

 work in the discovery of the kelep ant have 

 already been announced in these columns. 

 The effects of the general propaganda work in 

 Texas have been good, as many farmers have 

 succeeded in growing good crops of cotton de- 

 spite the presence of the weevil. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The registration at the International Con- 

 gress of Arts and Science was as follows: 



Foreign speakers 87 



Officers and principal American speakers 306 



Ten-minute speakers 138 



General registration 1,851 



Total 2,382 



Columbia University has conferred the de- 

 gree of D.Sc. on Sir William Ramsay, the 

 retiring president, and on Mr. W. H. Nichols, 

 the president-elect of the Society of Chemical 

 Industry. 



Professor Hugo de Vries, of the University 

 of Amsterdam, gave an illustrated lecture on 

 ' The Origin of Species, illustrated by the 

 Evening Primrose,' at the New York Botani- 

 cal Garden, on October 1. On October 3, he 

 was given a farewell reception at the American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



At the opening exercises of the one hundred 

 and fifty-first academic year of Columbia Uni- 

 versity on September 28, Professor Wood- 

 ward gave the address, taking as his subject 

 ' Academic Ideals.' 



It is announced that the first series of the 

 Hertzstein lectures at the University of Cali- 

 fornia will be delivered in October, by Dr. A. 

 E. Taylor, professor of pathology. The lec- 

 tures have been made possible through the 

 generosity of Dr. M. Hertzstein, of San Pran- 

 cisco, who fully equipped the physiological 

 laboratory and endowed the lectureship for the 

 discussion of special problems in scientific 

 medicine. Professor Taylor's subject will be 

 ' Ferments and Fermentations.' 



Major B. F. S. Baden-Powell arrived at 

 New York on the Campania, on October 1. 



He has brought with him kites that he will 

 exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition. 



Mr. Thomas H. Kearney, of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, IT. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, has been authorized to proceed to 

 North Africa and other Mediterranean coast 

 regions for the purpose of securing new seeds 

 and plants adapted to the southwest. A 

 special study will be made of the date and 

 new introductions of this fruit will be under- 

 taken. Alkali-resistant forage crops will also 

 be studied and the introduction of seeds of 

 new and promising kinds will be made. Mr. 

 Kearney will remain abroad until next spring. 



The Military-Medical Academy at St. 

 Petersburg has recently installed a portrait of 

 its honorary member. General Kuropatkin, in 

 the main hall as a token of gratitude for his 

 gifts. The academy owes to him the re- 

 modeling and enlargement of several of its 

 scientific departments. 



The relief expedition, under Mr. W. S. 

 Champ, which has undertaken for the sec- 

 ond time to reach the America, after going 

 as far as 79° north was driven back by the 

 ice. The America, under the command of 

 Mr. Anthony Fiala, has not been heard from 

 for a year, but there is said to be no anxiety 

 concerning it. 



Professor Robert Koch has been presented 

 with a portrait bust and a Festschrift on the 

 occasion of his sixtieth birthday. 



The funeral of Professor Niels Finsen, the 

 discoverer of the light cure for lupus, took 

 place on September 27. The Kings of Den- 

 mark and Greece were present, and there were 

 special representatives from Emperor William, 

 King Edward and other rulers. 



Mr. Arthur D. Wyman, assistant in chem- 

 istry at Harvard University, was killed by an 

 automobile on September 28. 



Mr. B. M. Everhart, the botanist, died at 

 West Chester, Pa., on September 22, at the 

 age of eighty-seven years. 



Those having reprints of the late Dr. 

 Greeley's paper on ' The effect of variations in 

 the temperature upon the process of artificial 

 parthenogenesis ' (published in the Biological 



