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are that Mr. Pinchot's interest and influence will be still felt in 

 the forest preservation legislation under discussion. 



Applications for a scholarship at the Zoological Station at 

 Naples, which affords opportunity for research in zoology, botany, 

 and physiology (with all the materials, apparatus, and assistance, 

 free of c6st) should be sent to the secretary (Mrs. A. D. Mead, 

 283 Wayland Ave., Providence, R. I.), on or before March 

 I, 1 9 10. Attention is also called to the ;^ 1,000 prize, which has 

 been offered periodically by the Association for the best thesis 

 written by a woman, on a scientific subject, embodying new ob- 

 servations and new conclusions based on an independent labora- 

 tory research in biological, chemical, or physical science, and 

 which will be awarded in April, 191 1. Circulars giving the con- 

 ditions of the award of the prize will be furnished by the secretary. 



The Boston meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science was attended by more than thirteen 

 hundred members and more than a thousand papers were pre- 

 sented. The botanical papers offered by the botanical section, of 

 the Association, Section G, and by the Botanical Society of 

 America, the Society of American Bacteriologists, the American 

 Phytopathological Society, the Sullivant Moss Society, and the 

 American Society of Naturalists number over one hundred and 

 sixty. These included Professor Ganong's address (as retiring 

 president of the Botanical Society of America) on the teaching 

 of botany and Professor Richard's address (as retiring vice-presi- 

 dent of Section G) on the nature of response to chemical stimula- 

 tion. There was a symposium on botanical gardens, one on 

 nuclear phenomena of sexual reproduction in thallophytes and 

 spermatophytes, and another on plant responses. Other papers 

 of interest to botanists and to teachers of botany were given by 

 the following scientific bodies : the Association of Horticultural 

 Inspectors, the American Nature Study Society, the American 

 Association of Economic Entomologists, the Association of 

 American Geographers, and by several divisions of the American 

 Chemical Society : the Division of Agricultural and Food Chem- 

 istry, the Division of Fertilizer Chemistry, the Biological Chem- 



