John J. Davis

Status of Hydrocyanic Acid Gas Treatment of Nursery Stock

Summarizes complaints from both nurserymen and from orchardmen relative to injury to nursery trees when fumigated with hydrocyanic acid gas and the factors involved. The need of further experiments with the gas and additional materials and probable plans for such investigations are suggested.

Resolutions on the Death of Dr. S. W. Williston

Dr. Samuel Wendell Williston, who was an early member and fellow of this society and was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1916, died in Chicago, Ill., August 30, 1918. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, July 10, 1852, and had achieved an almost unique position in American Science for the present period in that he had attained distinction in at least three branches of biology.