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America, died May 20, at the Maine General Hospital. He was 

 born at Woodstock, Vermont, in 1852. Since 1881 he had been 

 professor of geology and biology at Bowdoin College, also in- 

 structor in geology and evolution at Bangor Theological Seminary. 



A special summer meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science will be held at Hanover, New Hamp- 

 shire, from June 29 to July 3, 1908, in the buildings of Dart- 

 mouth College. Section G may hold no sessions, but full in- 

 formation as to program, railroad rates, and hotel accommoda- 

 tions may be obtained from the secretary. Dr. L. O. Howard, 

 Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 



By arrangement with the Bermuda Natural History Society, 

 the Station for Research at Agar's Island will be open for about 

 seven weeks this summer. There are accommodations for a 

 limited number of instructors or research students in either 

 zoology or botany. Steamers leave June 16 and June 30, thus 

 making possible sessions of 48 or 34 days ; the cost of passage, 

 board and lodging will be ^i 10, or for the shorter session, ^90. 



The fifth annual field "symposium," in which the Philadelphia 

 Botanical Club, the Washington Botanical Club, and the Torrey 

 Botanical Club will cooperate, will be held at Georgetown, Dela- 

 ware (vicinity Lewes, Rehoboth, and Indian River), July i to 8, 

 instead of July 6 to 12, as announced previously. The change 

 was made for those having a short holiday on the Fourth. The 

 headquarters will be at the Eagle Hotel, the rates being ;^i.50 

 per day (perhaps less per week). 



The Conference of Governors on the Conservation of the 

 Natural Resources of the Country, held in the White House, 

 May 13-16, was followed closely by appropriate Congressional 

 action ; measures have been adopted for the appointment of a 

 commission to go over the ground and report as to the necessity 

 and cost of such reserves. It also gives the consent of Congress 

 to states which desire to cooperate with the government in con- 

 serving their natural resources and protecting their naWgable 

 streams. The resolutions framed by the governors included the 



