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Genetics is the name of a new journal to be issued by the 

 Princeton University Press for the pubUcation of research papers 

 on heredity and aUied subjects. This journal will be a bi- 

 monthly, aggregating about 600 pages per annual volume, and 

 the subscription price is S6 per volume. Adequate illustration 

 will be aimed at, but will be attainable only with the cooperation 

 of all those interested in genetics. All such are cordially invited 

 to subscribe. On the editorial board are W. E. Castle, E. G. 

 Conklin, B. M. Davis, C. B. Davenport, E. Isl. East, R. A. 

 Emerson, T. H. ^Morgan, H. S. Jennings, Raymond Pearl, and 

 G. H. Shull. ^Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence 

 should be addressed to the managing editor, Dr. Geo. H. Shull, 

 60 Jefferson Road, Princeton, N, J., and all business corres- 

 pondence to the Princeton University Press. 



We learn from Secince that Professor J. C. Arthur, who has 

 been in college and experiment-station work for nearly forty 

 years, and for the last twenty-eight years has held the chair of 

 professor of vegetable physiology' and pathology in Purdue Uni- 

 versity and chief of the botanical department of the Indiana 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, retired on the first of Septem- 

 ber to become professor emeritus of botany in the same institu- 

 tion under the provisions of the Carnegie Foundation. He will 

 continue the researches on plant rusts which have been in prog- 

 ress for a number of years. 



Dr. Chas. H. Otis, for the past two years instructor in botany 

 in the College of Arts and Sciences of Cornell University, has ac- 

 cepted a position in the botanical department and experiment 



station of the New Hampshire College. 



Dr. J. J. T. Quensel, professor of pathological anatomy at the 

 University of Upsala, has died at the age of seventy years. 



