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when the label was written, water, alcohol and xylene may be ap- 

 plied to it freely without any danger of injury. Ordinary abrasion 

 such as the slide frequently encounters in use will not in any wise 

 affect the permanency of these labeis. They can, however, be 

 scratched off easily with a dull knife (or scrubbed off with scouring 

 soap). A white paper label pasted on the hack of the sHde will 

 make it even more conspicuous. Lance Burlingame: Science, 

 igi4, xxxix, p. 250. 



Grad. Sch. of Agric. The sixth session of the Grad. Seh. of 

 Agric, under the auspices of the Assoc. of Amer. Agric. Coli, and 

 Exp. Stations, was held at the Coli, of Agric, Univ. of Mo. (Co- 

 lumbia), June 29-July 24. Among the instructors were Dr. /. 

 Arthur Harris (biolog., Station for Exp. Evolution, Carnegie Inst, 

 Cold Spring Harbor, L. I.) ; Dr. H. L. ShantB (alkali and drought- 

 resistant plant investigations, U. S. Bur. of Plant Ind.) ; Prof. 



C. H. Eckles (prof. ofdairy husbandry, Univ. of Mo.) ; Prof. F. B. 

 Mumford (prof. of animal husbandry, Univ. of Mo.) ; Prof. H. O. 

 Allison (assoc. prof. of animal husbandry, Univ. of Mo.) ; Dr. H. S. 

 Grindley (prof. of animal nutr., Univ. of 111.); Dr. P. F. Trow- 

 bridge (prof. of agric. ehem., Univ. of Mo.) 



Pure Food League. An Amer. Pure Food League was or- 

 ganized at the N. Y. Acad. of Med., May 7, with the following 

 officers : Pres., R. McD. Allen, chief, State food and drug dep't, Lex- 

 ington, Ky. ; vice pres., E. F. Ladd, State food commiss., N. D. ; 

 exec. sec'y, Alice Lakey, formerly chair. of the food commit., Nat'l 

 Consumers' League; treas., John Martin, Board of Educ, N. Y. 

 City. Among the names of the members of the Advis. Board, we 

 note the following: C. L. Aisberg, chief, Bur. of Chem., Wash., 



D. C. ; L. B. Allyn, prof. of ehem., Mass. State Normal Sch., West- 

 field; W. M. Allen, State food ehem., Raleigh, N. C. ; H. E. Barnard, 

 State food commiss., Indianapolis, Ind. ; William Frear, State ehem., 

 State Coli, Pa. ; Wm. J. Gies, prof. of biol. ehem., Columbia Univ. ; 

 JuHus Hortvet, State food ehem., St. Paul, Minn. ; C. D. Howard, 

 State food ehem., Concord, N. H. ; W. F. Hand, State food ehem., 

 Agric. Coli., Miss.; D. R. Lucas, physician, N. Y. City; R. E. Rose, 

 State ehem., Tallahassee, Fla. ; H. H. Rusby, dean, N. Y. Coli, of 

 Pharm. ; John P. Street, State food ehem., New Haven, Conn. ; R. E. 



