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exercises of the three days concerned. The volume opens with a 

 copy of the official program, following which is the introductory 

 address of President Rerasen. Other formal addresses by distin- 

 guished men especially invited for the occasion follow. These 

 include President A. T. Hadley, who spoke on the relation of sci- 

 ence to the higher education in America ; Professor Arthur 

 Schuster, on international cooperation in research ; Dr. George E. 

 Hale, on the earth and sun as magnets ; and Professor J. C. Kap- 

 teyn, on the structure of the universe. The remarks of Dr. Wood- 

 ward and President Wilson on the occasion of the distribution of 

 medals, are given in full. The meeting closed with a dinner for 

 the members of the Academy and invited guests, and the secre- 

 tary is able to give here the complete speeches by the various gen- 

 tlemen called upon by Dr. Woodward, the toastmaster. These 

 were Vice President Thomas R. Marshall, Hon. James Bryce, the 

 late Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Dr. W. W. Keen, and Hon. Theodore 

 E. Burton. These speeches, with the remarks of the toastmaster 

 himself, form one of the most interesting features of the present 

 volume, which closes with the register of those in attendance. 



2. Annual Tables of Constants and Numerical Data, chem- 

 ical, physical, and technological, published by the International 

 Commission of the VII and VIII International Congresses of 

 Applied Chemistry. — Volume III of these tables is now in press 

 and will be issued in the first half of 1914. A descriptive circu- 

 lar with references to reviews of previous volumes may be secured 

 on application to the University of Chicago Press. The subscrip- 

 tion to volume III, now opened, will be closed March 31, 1914. 

 The names of subscribers should be sent to the University of 

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The Commissioners for the United States are : Julius Stieglitz, 

 University of Chicago ; Edward C. Franklin, Leland Stanford 

 University ; Henry G. Gale and Albert P. Mathews, University 

 of Chicago. 



3. The Fungi which cause Plant Disease ; by F. L. Stevens. 

 8vo, pp. 754, 449 figures. (The Macmillan Company, New York, 

 1913.) — The title of this work might naturally convey the impres- 

 sion of a popular general treatise on pathogenic fungi, perhaps 

 after the order of H. Marshall Ward's book, "Disease in Plants." 

 Although, of course, such books have their peculiar value, the 

 present work is, as a matter of fact, not at all of this type. Dr. 



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