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Poria decolorans (Schw.) Cooke, Grevillea 14: 113. 1886. 

 Poria clathrata (Berk. & Curt.) Cooke, Grevillea 14: 112. 1886. 

 Poria cremor (Berk. & Curt.) Cooke, Grevillea 14: 110. 1886. 

 Poria rivulosa (Berk. & Curt.) Cooke, Grevillea 14: 109. 1886. 

 Poria anaectopora (Berk. & Curt.) Cooke, Grevillea 14: 114. 1886. 

 Poria vesiculosa (Berk. & Curt.) Cooke, Grevillea 14: 114. 1886. 

 Poria favescens (Schw.) Cooke, Grevillea 14: 113. 1886. 

 Poria Rhododendri (Schw.) Cooke, Grevillea 14: 113. 1886. 

 Poria favillacea (Berk. & Curt.) Cooke, Grevillea 14: 111. 1886. 

 Poria Lindbladii (Berk.) Cooke, Grevillea 14: 111. 1886. 



W. A. MURRILL. 



A Fund for Scientific Research 



The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced its 

 purpose to give $5,000,000 for the use of the National Academy 

 of Sciences and the National Research Council. It is understood 

 that a portion of the money will be used to erect in Washington 

 a home of suitable architectural dignity for the two beneficiary 

 organizations. The remainder will be placed in the hands of the 

 Academy, which enjoys a federal charter, to be used as a perma- 

 nent endowment for the National Research Council. This im- 

 pressive gift is a fitting supplement to Mr. Carnegie's great con- 

 tributions to science and industry. 



The Council is a democratic organization based upon some 

 forty of the great scientific and engineering societies of the 

 country, which elect delegates to its constituent divisions. It is 

 not supported or controlled by the government, differing in this 

 respect from other similar organizations established since the 

 beginning of the war in England, Italy, Japan, Canada and Aus- 

 tralia. It intends, if possible, to achieve in a democracy and by 

 democratic methods the great scientific results which the Germans 

 achieved by autocratic methods in an autocracy while avoiding 

 the obnoxious features of the autocratic regime. 



The Council was organized in 1916 as a measure of national 

 preparedness and its efforts during the war were mostly confined 

 to assisting the government in the solution of pressing war-time 

 problems involving scientific investigation. Reorganized since 

 the war on a peace-time footing, it is now attempting to stimulate 

 and promote scientific research in agriculture, medicine, and in- 



