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Professor Elmer E. Brown, of the Uni- 

 versity of California. Dr. Harris's 

 retirement has been made possible by 

 a retiring allowance from the Carnegie 

 Foundation for the Advancement of 

 Teaching. This action was taken by 

 the trustees of the foundation under 

 one of their rules which permits of 

 such action in the case of extraordinary 

 and unusual service to education. Dr. 

 Harris has been the commissioner of 

 education since 1889, and has, perhaps, 

 had a larger and more intimate con- 

 nection with the whole body of teachers 

 than any other man. The offer to him 

 of this retiring allowance was an act 

 of the highest regard for his work and 

 places his name at the head of the list 

 of distinguished men who have accepted 

 such retiring allowances from the Car- 

 negie Foundation. — Dr. D. E. Salmon, 

 from 1884 to 1905 chief of the Bureau 



of Animal Industry, has accepted the 

 offer of the government of Uruguay 

 to organize a Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry for that country. Dr. Salmon, 

 who is at present engaged in scientific 

 work in Montana, will start for South 

 America about December 1. 



The protocol providing for the es- 

 tablishment of an international insti- 

 tute of agriculture at Rome, Italy, has 

 been adopted by the congress. There 

 are about forty governments party to 

 the arrangement. Studies will be 

 made of all kinds of plant life and 

 means of extermination of insects and 

 other pests. The institute will re- 

 ceive the reports of the agricultural 

 bureaus and societies of all countries. 

 The Italian government will supply the 

 buildings, and the cost to other govern- 

 ments will be about $5,000 a vear each. 



