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University. Dr. Willis has been giving a brief course of lectures 

 at Harvard on some economic problems of tropical agriculture. 



Dean H. H. Rusby made during the summer a two months' 

 trip to the Pacific coast ; Dr. Rusby attended the American 

 Pharmaceutical Association at Los Angeles, aided Dr. Kebler 

 (Bureau of Chemistry, United States Department of Agriculture) 

 in inspecting the drug supplies of the western coast, and studied 

 and collected indigenous drugs and economic plants for the Col- 

 lege of Pharmacy. 



A conference has been planned by Gifford Pinchot, United 

 States Forester, to which are invited the heads of all universities, 

 colleges, and schools in which technical forestry is taught. The 

 conference which is to be held in Washington December 30 and 

 3 1 will consider the objects and methods of forest instruction, the 

 organization and standards of educational work in the field of for- 

 estry, the coordination of the work of different institutions, and the 

 needs of the Forest Service and other employers of forest graduates. 



At the recent Darwin commemoration the honorary degree of 

 D.S. was (according to Science) conferred upon the follow- 

 ing botanists : Robert Chodat, professor of botany at Geneva ; 

 Francis Darwin, F.R.S., honorary fellow of Christ's College, and 

 formerly reader in botany ; Karl F. Goebel, professor of botany 

 at Munich ; Hermann Graf zu Solms-Laubach, professor of botany 

 at Strassburg; Clement Timiriazeff, professor of botany in Mos- 

 cow; Hermann Vochting, professor of botany at Tubingen ; Hugo 

 de Vries, professor of botany at Amsterdam ; and Charles Rene 

 Zeiller, professor of paleobotany in the Ecole des Mines, Paris, 



The yearly winter meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science will be held in Boston, from December 

 27, 1909, to January i, 19 10. The sessions of the botanical 

 section will convene under the Vice-Presidency of Professor D. 

 P. Penhallow, and will alternate with the sessions of the Botanical 

 Society of America, as at Chicago and Baltimore. An address 

 will be delivered by the retiring Vice-President, Dr. H. M. 

 Richards, of Barnard College, Columbia University, and there 

 will be a symposium on the role of botanical gardens, as well as 

 the usual papers. 



