EDITORIAL. 
The Institute has purchased the botanical portion of Dr. F. 
Stoward’s library, which includes a large number of bulletins of the 
United States Department of Agriculture and a number of French 
and German scientific works and periodicals. 
Yt a * 
The first meeting of the South African Advisory Board of Industry 
and Science was held at Cape Town, on 14th January. 
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A cheque for £350 was recently received by the Rothamsted Experi- 
mental Station from the Carnegie Trust for the purchase of important 
books of reference. When will Australia raise a Carnegie? 
+ The Canadian Advisory Council of Scientific and Industrial Research 
has recommended that the existing duty upon alcohol used for industrial 
purposes be removed. 
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Professor Masson, Messrs. A. E. V. Richardson, A. J. McKinstry, 
and the Director have been appointed a Library Consultation Com- 
mittee. 
Devotion to science is a tacit worship—a tacit recognition 
of worth in the things studied; and by implication in their 
cause. It is not a mere lip-homage, but a homage expressed 
in actions—not a mere professed respect, but a respect proved 
by the sacrifice of time, thought, and labour. 
—HERBERT SPENCER. 
