398 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Founders' Day celebration, January 12. This medal is awarded annually by 

 the university to an alumnus or former student for " distinguished service to 

 mankind." 



Washington College and Station. — H. P. Barss has resigned as instructor in 

 botany and assistant plant pathologist to accept a position as assistant pro- 

 fessor of plant pathology in the Oregon College and Station. 



West Virginia Station. — Hubert Hill, assistant feed chemist of the North 

 Carolina State Station, has been appointed assistant chemist, and has entered 

 upon his duties. 



Maodonald College.— Recent appointments include ^Y. P. Fraser as lecturer in 

 biology, vice J. M. Swaine, resigned to become assistant entomologist of the 

 Dominion Experimental Farms, in charge of the work on forest insects; W. J. 

 Reid as assistant in animal husbandry, vice W. B. Cooley, resigned to engage 

 in commercial work ; Peter I. Bryce, assistant in biologj-, vice W. H. Brittain, 

 appointed assistant botanist of the seed division of the Dominion Department 

 of Agi'iculture; and M. A. Jull, formerly live stock commissioner of British 

 Columbia, as lecturer in poultry and poultry management. F. C. Elford has 

 resigned as poultry instructor and manager to engage in commercial work. 



New Ampelographical Station in Spain. — Accordmg to La Informacidn Agri- 

 cola, an ampelographical station was established in Madrid by a royal decree 

 of November 17, 1911. The station, which is to be located on the grounds of 

 the Agricultural Institute of Alfonso XII, will be charged with the organization 

 of a traveling inspection service for assistance in the fight against phylloxera 

 and in the reconstitution of vineyards, a general study of the viticultural con- 

 ditions in each district, the establishment of experimental fields and nurseries, 

 the classification of Spanish varieties of grapes and testing the adaptation of 

 the same to various American stocks, hybridization experiments, the formation 

 of a museum of Spanish viticulture, and other matters pertaining to grape 

 pruning and spraying. It will cooperate with all of the provincial ampelo- 

 graphical and enological centers, 



Nicholas Garcia de los Salmones, the well-known Spanish agronomic engineer, 

 has been selected as director. He will be assisted by a body of specialists. 



American Society of Agricxiltural Engineers. — The fifth annual meeting of this 

 society was held at St. Paul, Minn., December 27 to 29. Among the papers were 

 the following : Larger Farm Implements and the Cost of Crop Production, by 

 F. H. Demaree ; Corn Planter Tests, Value and Method, by C. O. Reed ; Some 

 Agricultural Engineering Problems in Mexico, by S. F. Morse ; The Agricultural 

 Engineer in the West, by C. R. Sessions; Farm Buildings — Location as a Factor 

 Affecting Farm Labor Efficiency, by L. W. Chase; Barn Framing, by F. L. 

 Marsh; Lighting Farm Buildings, by H. H. Musselman; Low Gravity Fuels 

 for Internal Combustion Tractors, by J. A. King; and The Tractor for Inter- 

 tilled Crops and the Need of Tractor Implements, by Fred Glover. 



Officers were elected as follows : President, H. W. Riley, Ithaca, N. Y. ; vice 

 presidents, J. B. Bartholomew, Peoria, 111., and L. W. Chase, Lincoln, Nebr. ; 

 secretary, C. O. Reed, Urbana. 111. ; and treasurer, J. L. Mowry, St. Paul, Minn, 



Second International Congress of Entomology. — The second congress of this 

 organization will be held at Oxford, August 5 to 10, under the presidency of 

 Prof. E. B. Poulton. Communications should be addressed to the general secre- 

 tary of the executive committee, Dr. Malcolm Burr, care Entomological Society 

 of London, 11 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London. W. 



New Journals. — The first number of Internationale Mitteilungen fiir Boden- 

 kunde, edited by Wahnschaffe, Margoci, and Ramann with the cooperation of 

 a large number of collaborators in difi'erent countries (E. W. Hilgard repre- 

 senting the United States), has recently appeared. This journal, uf which 



