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have had a short training at various Austrian schools. — The first school of forestry was estab- 

 lished in 1896 at Vytina and serves principally for training forest guards. A school forest of 

 16,000 hectares (chiefly Abies cephalonica) serves as a field for practical training. Two other 

 similar schools are to be established, 1 in the Aleppo pine forest Chalandrion in Attica, the 

 other in the hardwood forest Agyia, in the Mt. OljTnpus region.- — For training the adminis- 

 trative personnel, the State sends a certain number of students each year to Austria. The 

 law of 1917 provides for a higher forest school at Athens, to give a complete 4-year course. 

 The curriculum is described. The number of students, fixed by the Minister of Agriculture, 

 has so far been from 15 to 25 each year. — W. N. Sparhawk. 



111. Slate, William L., Jr. The first college course in field crops. Jour. Amer. Soc. 

 Agron. 13: 59-63. 1921. — Type, aims, content, and method of teaching the course are out- 

 lined. Its relation to the sciences, to specialized courses in crops, to farm experience and high 

 school agriculture are shown. The author would place the course in the freshman year and 

 allow 3-5 hours credit. — F. M. Schertz. 



112. Stevenson, W. H., and P. E. Brown. The teaching of soils in agricultural colleges. 

 Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 13: 63-70. 1921.- — The authors advocate uniting all branches of soil 

 instruction in one department. A 4-year agricultural course should include 4 or 5 courses in 

 soils, such as: Soils, soil-fertility, manures and fertilizers, soil management and soil bacteri- 

 ology. The laboratory work for these courses is also outlined. — F. M. Schertz. 



113. Wagner. Neuordnung des forstlichea Unterrichts fur Wiirttemberg bezw. Siid- 

 westdeutschland. [Suggestions for reorganization of forestry instruction in southwest Ger- 

 many.] Allg. Forst.- u. Jagdzeitg. 1919: 245-251. 1919. — Of the numerous forest schools 

 that were established in Germany only 9 remained in 1900, — 4 in North Germany and 5 in South 

 Germany. Recently 2 more were abandoned, leaving only 7. Now Prof. Wagner, of the 

 forestry faculty of the University of Tubingen, recommends a still further consolidation. The 

 states of Wiirttemberg, Hesse, and Baden, instead of having separate forest schools, which 

 must necessarily be small in size and inadequately equipped, should bring together all their 

 instruction in forestry in one well-equipped school, and Prof. Wagner suggests that it would 

 be located at Heidelberg, with Tubingen as a second choice. — Joseph S. Illick. 



114. Weatherbt, C. a. What the Latin names mean-II. Amer. Fern Jour. 11: 25-27. 

 1921. — The article completes the list of specific names started in the Amer, Fern Jour. 10: 

 115-119. 1920.— F. C. Anderson. 



115. Wentz, John B. The standardization of courses in field crops. Jour. Amer. Soc. 

 Agron. 13: 52-59. 1921. — Colleges of the U. S. A. ofi'er 133 difi"erently named courses in field 

 crops; these courses when classified as to ground numbered 47 and of these 47 only 20 are offered 

 by more than one or two colleges. A table shows that great irregularity exists in the positions 

 of the field crop courses in the college curricula. Another table shows that great variation 

 is found in the number of hours devoted to the different courses by different colleges. Differ- 

 ence in importance of some crops in different parts of the country accounts for some of the 

 variation. — F. M. Schertz. 



116. WoLK, P. C. VAN DER. De Botanische Tuin in Lissabon. [The Botanical Garden 

 in Lisbon.] Aarde en haar Volkeren 57: 108-110. Fig. 1~4. 1921. 



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H. C. CowLES, Editor 

 Geo. D. Fuller, Assistaiit Editor 



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