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english-speaking countries. (Publisher's announcement, Septem- 

 ber number, vol. iv, no. i.) 



Visiting agriadturalists. Mr. Paul Korchoof, agricultural ex- 

 pert, department of the Russian ministry of agriculture, and Mr. 

 Vaseelie Yurieff, assistant director, Kharkow Central Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, have been visiting the agricultural Colleges and 

 stations in this country. — Dr. E. B. Copeland, dean of the College of 

 Agriculture, Los Bafios, P. I., who has been visiting the United 

 States, recently returned to the Philippines. 



Parsons in Washington. Dr. Charles L. Parsons, secretary of the 

 American Chemical Society, moved from Durham, N. H., to Wash- 

 ington on September i. The headquarters of the American Chem- 

 ical Society may now be addressed, Box 505, Washington, D. C, 



Remsen to remain at Hopkins. Owing to the difficulty of find- 

 ing a suitable occupant for the post, Dr. Ira Remsen will remain at 

 the head of Johns Hopkins University for the ensuing session, or 

 part of it at least. 



Petroleum production in the United States, in 191 1, surpassed its 

 own record (made in 1910) by an increase of nearly 11,000,000 

 barreis. In 1910 the Output was 209,557,248 barreis. The total 

 production of the world also surpassed all previous records, amount- 

 ing to over 345,000,000 barreis. 



Johns Hopkins limits enrolment. The dean of Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School announces that it has become necessary to limit the 

 number of students owing to the restricted space and facilities in the 

 various laboratories. The present enrolment is 355, the largest in 

 the history of the school, and fifty other students were refused ad- 

 mission prior to the beginning of the session. 



Standard rations for nutrition experiments. A Conference was 

 held at the Graduate School of Agriculture, Lansing, Mich., on 

 July 24, to discuss the formulation of Standard rations for experi- 

 mental work in determining the comparative value of feed stuffs. 

 Mr. B. H. Rawl, chief of the dairy division, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, President H. J. Waters, of Kansas Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Prof. C. H. Eckles, of Missouri Experiment Station, and other 

 leading workers in this field were present and led the discussion. 



