September 13, 1901.] 



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The library of natural history, which the 

 Park Department has fitted up in the Swedish 

 schoolhouse on the West Drive near the Metro- 

 politan Museum, is used by fifty to one hun- 

 dred people daily. It will be kept open dur- 

 ing the winter, and it is expected that it will 

 be used by children from the schools. The 

 library is dependent on gifts, and books or 

 journals bearing on natural history will be 

 gladly received. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has ofiered $20,000 

 and $15,000, respectively, to Riverside, Cal., 

 and Chatham, N. Y., for public libraries. 



The New York City Board of Health has 

 adopted resolutions requiring public institutions 

 to report cases of malaria and requesting 

 physicians to do the same. 



In harmony with the vote of the executive 

 committee, the eighteenth annual meeting of 

 the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists 

 will be held in Washington, D. C, beginning 

 Thursday, November 14, and continuing over 

 Friday and Saturday, 15 and 16, or until the 

 business of the Association is completed. The 

 authorities of the Columbian University have 

 extended the courtesy of the use of the Uni- 

 versity lecture hall for the various sessions. 

 The following order of business will be ob- 

 served : The president's address ; reports of the 

 referees on nitrogen, on potash, on phosphoric 

 acid, on soils, on ash, on foods and feeding 

 stuffs, on liquor and food adulteration, on 

 dairy products, on sugar, on tannin, on in- 

 secticides ; reports of special committees (ab- 

 stract committee, food standards, fertilizer 

 legislation, volumetric standards). 



The following preliminary program of sub- 

 jects for the proposed International Confer- 

 ence on Plant Breeding and Hybridization, to 

 be held in the fall of 1902, is announced by 

 the Horticultural Society of New York. The 

 exact dates for the meetings are not yet decided 

 upon, and the program as given is subject to 

 alteration : 



BesuUs of Hybridization and Plant Breeding in 

 Canada. ( Illustrated by specimens. ) William Saun- 

 ders, director of the Central Experimental Farm, 

 Ottawa, Canada. 



Notes on Plant Breeding in California. E. J. Wick- 



son, horticulturist, Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 University of California. 



Plant Breeding in Nexo Jersey. (Illustrated by 

 specimens. ) B. D. Halsted, professor of botany in 

 Eutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J. 



Hybrid Plums. F. A. Waugh, horticulturist, Ver- 

 mont Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Variations in Hybrids not appearing in the First 

 Generation, htt Later. E. S. Goff, horticulturist, 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Wis- 

 consin. 



Pesults in the breeding of Species of Eicinus. E. 

 Mead Milcox, botanist, Oklahoma Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station. 



On Orchid Hybrids. (Illustrated by specimens of 

 the parents and progeny. ) Oakes Ames, Ames Bo- 

 tanical Laboratory, North Easton, Mass. 



The Wild Hybrida of the North American Flora. 

 (Illustrated by specimens of the parents and progeny. ) 

 David George, museum aid, New York Botanical 

 Garden. 



Hybrid Beans. E. A. Emerson, horticulturist, 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, University of 

 Nebraska. 



Cytological Aspects of Hybrids. W. A. Cannon, Co- 

 lumbia University, New York City. 



Con-elation between the Fruit and other Parts of the 

 Plant in Form, Color and other Characteristics, (Il- 

 lustrated by specimens.) S. A. Beach, horticulturist, 

 New York State Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y. 



Other papers, the titles of which have not yet 

 been communicated, are also promised from the 

 following : Delegates representing the Royal 

 Horticultural Society of England ; Luther Bur- 

 bank, Santa Rosa, Cal.; J. Craig, Cornell Uni- 

 versity, Ithaca, N. Y.; K. C. Davis, West 

 Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station ; S. 

 B. Green, Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 University of Minnesota ; H, C. Price, Iowa 

 Agricultural Experiment Station ; W. van 

 Fleet, M.D., Little Silver, N. J.; J. C. Whitten, 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Columbia, 

 Mo.; C. W. Ward, Queens, N. Y.; H. J. Web- 

 ber and others representing the United States 

 Department of Agriculture. 



There was held at Glasgow last week an 

 international engineering congress under the 

 auspices of the leading British engineering 

 societies. Lord Kelvin was the honorary presi- 

 dent and Mr. James Mansergh the president. 

 The sections in which the congress met were as 

 follows : 



