100 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



The committee on amendments to the constitution reported favorably a reso- 

 lution introduced by W. A. Withers recommending that the referees and asso- 

 ciate referees be appointed by the outgoing executive committee, and, further- 

 more, that the association provide a place on the program for the announcement 

 of the appointment of referees and associates referees. The plan has for its 

 purpose the expedition of cooperative work. The association also adopted a 

 resolution presented by O. M. Shedd that the retiring referees transmit a copy 

 of their reports and recommendations to the incoming referees, together with a 

 statement of the action taken by the association. 



In regard to the proposed aflBliation of societies organized for the purpose of 

 advancing agricultural science. Dr. Wiley pointed out to the association the 

 desirability of joining in the movement. Certain rules which exist in the asso- 

 ciation by-laws, however, conflict somewhat with the stipulations proposed for 

 the organization of the new society. 



The committee on the standardization of alcohol tables, and that on the pro- 

 posed agricultural scientific journal, were discharged. 



The officers elected for the next year are : President, H. J. Patterson, College 

 Park, Md. ; vice-president, G. S. Fraps, College Station. Tex. ; secretary- 

 treasurer, H. W. Wiley, Washington, D. C. ; and as additional members of the 

 executive committee, R. E. Doolittle, Washington, D. C, and A. J. Patten, of 

 East Lansing, Mich. 



Necrology. — Edouard Andre, editor-in-chief of the Revue Horticole since 1882 

 and professor of garden architecture at I'Ecole Nationale d'Horticulture of 

 Versailles since 1892, when the chair was established on his behalf, died 

 October 25 at La Croix (Indre-et-Loire), at the age of 71 years. Professor 

 Andre made many contributions to horticultural literature, the best known of 

 which is the classic I'Art des Jardins. He was a garden architect of interna- 

 tional repute and is also well known for his extensive botanical collections made 

 in South America. As a result of his voyages to Uruguay in 1890, Professor 

 Andre collected many plants of value to horticulture, many of which have since 

 been extensively cultivated. He was a member of the leading botanical and 

 horticultural societies at home and abroad and was an officer of the Legion 

 of Honor. 



A recent number of the Journal cV Agriculture Praetique notes the death on 

 October 5, at the age of 84, of Dr. Samuel Bieler, director of the Cantonal 

 Agricultural School at Lausanne. In his long and active career he devoted 

 much time to studies in zootechny and animal husbandry and left many valu- 

 able memoirs. In 1898 he was organizer and secretary-general of the fifth 

 International Congress of Agriculture, which was held at Lausanne. 



Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, the Nestor of English botanists, died December 10, 

 1911, in his ninety-fifth year. His great reputation rests mainly on his work in 

 connection with systematic botany, but his contributions to the geographical dis- 

 tribution of plants have been numerous and valuable. 



The recent death at Narbonne is noted of Gaston Gautier at the age of 70 

 years. He was a member of Societe de Botanique de France and had published 

 several botanical memoirs. His best known undertaking was the reclamation 

 of the pestilential swamps surrounding Narbonne and their conversion into 

 vineyards. 



G. H. Verrall, the eminent English dipterist and a former president of the 

 Entomological Society of London, died September 16 at the age of 64 years. 



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