Mabch 16, 1912.] 



THE GARDENERS 



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CHRONICLE. 



171 



Carnation Conference. — A conference on 



Carnations will be held by the Perpetual-flower- some flowers of selected 

 ing Carnation Society in the Royal Horticultural sinensis from M<***r* Pn 



™°ri 8 Z ■JST'lS.. 1 ? I***™* benefactor who stipulates that his name shall 



not be mentioned, has placed in my hands a sum 



varieties of Primula 



Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on Thursday, 

 March 21, the first day of the Society's Spring 

 Exhibition. Mr. J. S. Bhunton will occupy the 

 chair. The subjects for discussion include 



sinensis from Messrs. Ed. Webb 

 ley. Rose 



pound 



000) for the 



~v- ^^ %tfucou i» a large, smootn Hower of a mirnnw n f onr1nnMn» ~ r> * i • a ^ 



nrettv sharlA nf r™*. t?«i ;JT« : t u • puipose oi endowing a Professorship at Cam- 



prettj shade of rose; Eclipse is purplish-crimson, brid „ e in MTlnftl , nn . fll f v _ . * .i ^„ 



T^r b x u * n f * dl J 11 ■ Rub y Q ueen is a peculiar shade 



name. The others are Ava- 



bridge in connection with the experimental study 

 of heredity and of development by descent. It is 



" Cultivation of Perpetual-flowering Carnations lanche, a good white variety • Meteor a salmon- sti P ulated als0 that the new Chair shall be called 

 for Amateurs/' by Mr. F. Fitch, Balls Park rose flower; and Blue Bell. ' the Balfenp PrnfAi«A«iW» «f ru**-*:*- tu 



Gardens, Hertford; and " Carnat 



ding Plants/' by Mr. E. F. Hawes, Imperial 



School of British Horticulture, Hampstead. 



Devon Daffodil and Spring Flower Show. 



We are informed by the secretary that the 

 dates of this exhibition have been altered to 

 Thursday and Friday, April 18 and 19, owing to 

 the Royal Horticultural Society's Daffodil Show 

 being arranged to take place on April 16 and 17, 

 the dates originally fixed for the holding of the 

 Devon Daffodil show. 



Balfour Professorship of Genetics. 



Thanks to the munificence of an anonymous bene- 

 factor, the University of Cambridge has received 

 the sum of £20,000 for the endowment of 

 a Professorship of Genetics. It will be remem- 

 bered that some five years ago a Professorship of 



the DurnosG of 



Biology was established for 

 encouraging research in genetics. no per- 

 manent endowment was, however, provided 



purpose 

 No 



the Balfour Professorship of Genetics. There are 

 two more subsidiary conditions which I am to 

 place before you for your consideration : (1) That 

 the first appointment should be made jointly by 

 the Prime Minister and Mr. Balfour. (2) That 

 the regulations governing future appointments to 

 and functions of the Chair shall be submitted 

 through me to the anonymous benefactor before 

 the endowment fund is placed in your hands. I 

 am able further to state that our generous bene- 

 factor is willing to furnish such funds as may be 



—> • — j r *~»*v*^ i^uui * Q urimug w luiiusn sucn iunasas may be 



tor the maintenance of the professorship, beyond necessary to provide and equip a small station at 

 a certain term of years ; nor was adequate pro- Cambridge for the use of the professor, should 



R>CH RON 



Fig, 71. — a Japanese variety of 



TGE, SAID TO BE COMPARATIVELY HARDY. 



(The section shows the presence of two abortive seeds. See p. 170.) 



"The British Fern Gazette." — We have vision made for the establishment of an experi- such a course be considered desirable after care- 



received No. 11 of this Gazette, the organ of the 

 British Pteridological Society, edited by Mr. 

 <-has. T. Druery, V.M.H., who is also the hon. 

 secretary, 11, S haa Road, Acton, London, W. 

 ihe subscription to the society is 5s. per year, 

 ?nd this sum entitles to membership and four 

 issues of the Gazette. 



Appoi Ntments at Calcutta and Edin- 



fflT"~5J P ' CHiRLES CtJMMING CALDKR. B.Sc , 



aL?! .^fsity of Aberdeen, has been 

 appointed by the Secretary of State for India in 

 ^ouncil, on the recommendation of Kew 

 ^urator of the Herbarium of the Roval Botanic 



S t 6 R C K 1CUtta - Mr - W - W ' SM " H > C ™^ 

 Calcutt? er u an T ° f * e Ro >' al Bota ™ Gardens, 

 Ass sta^i ^ £ transferred to the post of 



Brr G x h : sszsr- of the **■> 



ment station, which is an indispensable adjunct 

 to a professorship in genetics. Now that it is in 



ful examination of the methods likely to be most 

 satisfactory for the purposes of research in the 



receipt of adequate funds, the University will be domain of genetics. — I remain, yours sincerely, 



able to take officially a proper part in the en- Esher." 



couragement of this important branch of biology. 



The Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University has 



received the following letter from Lord Esher : 



Presidency of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, Vienna. — On February 18, immediately 

 2, Tilney Street, Mayfair, W., March 7.— Dear following on the extraordinary general meeting 

 Vice-Chancellor, — Towards the end of last year of the newly-elected committee of the above- 

 there was a meeting held at Mr. Balfour's house 



<< 



in Carlton Gardens of a few representative mem- made: — President, 



named society, the following appointments were 



His Excellency the Count 



bers of the University of Cambridge interested in 

 the subject of genetics. The meeting had under 



Privy Councillor; 



Richard Wettstein 



consideration a short paper written by Mr. Bal- sheim, Counsellor and University Professor 

 four in July, 1510, which dealt with the endow- Second 



Umlatjf 



folk in tiuiy, iyiu, wmcn cteaifc wuu uie eiiuow- oecuuu v ice-A^onjcmu, ***-*. «■*»«.*«» ^- *^„ 



ment of the study of genetics in the University Director of the Hofgarten. Dr. Kurt Scht^ 



of Cambridge. 



As a result of that meeting, I am ner was 



glad to be able to inform you that a generous 



ted general secretary oi^ 



Joseph Ullucann treasr 



