clxxxii GENERAL SUMMAKY OF SCIENTIFIC AND 



The laboratory and experimental grounds, with an endowment fund 

 of 100,000 sterling, have been placed in trust by Mr. Lawes, to re- 

 main forever devoted to the investigation of agricultural science." 



The laboratory of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, un- 

 der the direction of Dr. Voelcker, at London. Dr. Voelcker receives 

 300 sterling salary, 200 for investigations, and fees for analyses, 

 which number some 700 annually. This work has been going on 

 for over twenty years. 



Each one of the larger universities and agricultural academies of 

 Germany has, among its institutions for scientific research, one or 

 more laboratories devoted to investigations in agricultural science. 

 In these some of the most noted of the German investigators are em- 

 ployed. Twelve universities and three higher agricultural schools 

 in Russia make similar though, at present, less generous provision 

 for agricultural research. 



It was only a very brief time after Italy was freed from pajDal rule, 

 and united under the liberal government of Victor Emanuel, that steps 

 were taken toward the promotion of its most important material in- 

 terests by the establishment of agricultural experiment stations on 

 the German plan. Some thirteen are now in operation there. 



Among the means adopted by the German government for pacify- 

 ing and improving the condition of the province of Alsace-Lorraine, 

 lately acquired from France, were the establishment of a university 

 at Strasburg and an experiment station at Rufach. 



Experiment Stations in the United States. The Bussey Institution 

 of Harvard University, though not an experiment station in name, 

 continues to show itself, under the direction of Professor Storer, a 

 very efiicient and useful one in fact. The first volume of its Bul- 

 letin a work of some 470 large and closely j)rinted pages has 

 been completed during the past year, and gives accounts of a large 

 amount of work, as scientific and thorough as it is unostentatious. 



The last report of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture contains 

 a " Preliminary Report" of a part of the first year's work of the Con- 

 necticut Agricultural Experiment Station, which shows that this, the 

 first institution of the sort in this country, is commencing what prom- 

 ises to be a successful career. Its chief attention thus fiir has been 

 given to the subject of commercial fertilizers, though investigations 

 of more abstract questions in agricultural science are in progress. 



The example of Connecticut seems to bid fair to be followed in a 

 number of the other states of the Union. The Vermont State Board 

 of Agriculture, with the aid of Professor Seeley, of Middlebury Col- 

 lege, who is secretary and chemist of the Board, have undertaken 

 the establishment of an exj)eriment station, of which the first Bul- 

 letin has already appeared. Prominent agriculturists in a number 

 of other states have been urging before their respective legislatures 

 the importance of appropriations for the same purpose. 



