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brain disease, due to confinement in artifical conditions, and he charges 

 with criminality poor beasts that did their poor best to obey instincts upon 

 which the perpetuation and progress of their race have depended for 

 centuries. Of all the tales he presents, that in which Black Beauty, a 

 buffalo, "murders" Apache, an interloping rival for the overlordship of 

 the herd, best illustrates the laborious bringing from afar of a complex 

 human explanation when a simple animal one was close at hand." 



NEWS NOTES 



The Graduate School of Agriculture will hold its third session July 6-31 

 at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., under the auspices of the American 

 Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. Instruc- 

 tion adapted to the needs of graduate students will be given under 

 the general heads of biochemistry, agronomy, horticulture, dairy hus- 

 bandry and dairying, poultry, veterinary medicine and entomology. 

 Prominent specialists in these lines will have charge of the instruction. 



Lecture periods of one hour each will be provided for, principally in 

 the forenoon during five days of each week. After each lecture period 

 there will be an open period of a half-hour, which may be used informally 

 for answering questions asked by individual students, etc. In the after- 

 noon seminars or demonstration exercises will be held for about two hours, 

 five days in each week. 



By vote of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Ex- 

 periment Stations a matriculation fee of ten dollars will be charged for the 

 whole session or any part thereof. No laboratory fees will be charged. 

 Board and room may be obtained in the neighborhood of Cornell University 

 for from $6.50 to $8 a week. 



All correspondence relating to membership in this school should be 

 addressed to Prof. G. N. Lauman, Registrar, College of Agriculture, 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



A prospectus giving a complete schedule of courses and instructors and 

 other information will be issued later. A. C. True of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture is the Dean of the School. 



Dr. Mary Wood-Allen, the well known author of books and leaflets for 

 instruction concerning sex physiology and editor of "American Mother- 

 hood," died recently at a sanitarium in Washington, D. C. 



Prof. Austin C. Apgar, of the Trenton (N. J.) Normal School died early 

 in March. Professor Apgar was a naturalist-teacher of the old school. 

 Among his published writings the best known are the handbooks on birds 

 and trees. 



Summer Courses in Science will be given in most colleges and schools 

 which have summer sessions. The compiler of these notes has received 

 specific information from Cornell and Columbia universities, Cold Spring 

 Harbor Laboratory, and Maine Biological Laboratory and the Lake 

 Laboratory at Sandusky, O. Some of the institutions give information 

 on the advertising pages of this magazine. 



