500 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



insects to attract the males fi-om long distances, and asks entomologists to in- 

 form him of facts in this connection which may have come to their notice. He 

 will send in exchange some of his entomological publications and also a copy 

 of the paper when printed. 



Prof. Friedrich Czapek, of the University of Prague, has been appointed to 

 the chair of plant physiology and pathology in the Imperial College of Science 

 and Technology, London. It is announced that this chair has been recently 

 established to meet the needs for training students to act as advisers in matters 

 connected with agriculture, especially in England and the British Colonies. 



The publication of Milch Zciiung, the oldest dairy journal in the world, has 

 been merged with that of its former scientitic supplement, MilchivirtschaftUches 

 Zentralblatt, under the name of the latter but continuing the volume notation 

 of the former. It is expected that the new publication will give attention to 

 both scientific and practical phases. 



H. N. Ridley has retired from the directorship of the Botanic Gardens in 

 Singapore. With his departure the AgricuUiiral Bulletin of the Straits and 

 Federated Malay States, which has been under his direction since its establish- 

 ment in its present form in 1902, has suspended publication. 



The Agricultural News Bulletin is being published bimonthly at Madison, 

 Wis. Its purpose is announced as to be to promote the teaching of agriculture, 

 and it is to contain editorials, news items, and similar information which will 

 contribute to that end. 



The University of South Carolina is offering a course of 20 lectures on agri- 

 culture, in cooperation with this Department, with a view to affording oppor- 

 tunity for keeping its students in touch with the trend and opportunities of 

 country life. 



Nature states that Mr. Clement Stephenson has offered $25,000 to Armstrong 

 College, Newcastle, toward a proposed building for the new agricultural de- 

 partment of the college for advisory work among farmers in the northeast o? 

 England. 



The Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Pressc of January 27, 1912, contains a 

 detailed description of the new building and equipment of the division of plant 

 breeding of the Institute for Plant Production at the University of Breslau. 



William G. R. Paterson has been appointed principal and professor of the 

 West of Scotland Agricultural College, vice Sir R. P. Wright, now agricultural 

 adviser to the Scottish Education Department. 



The Russian Department of Agriculture has founded at the Riga Polytechnic 

 a school for specialists in swamp reclamation. 



A three-year course in agriculture, leading to a certificate, is to be given at 

 the Colonial Pi-actical School of Agriculture at Fort-de-France, Martinique. 



The experimental farm at Ruakura, New Zealand, has established a course of 

 practical farm training which is being attended by ten young men. 



The recent death is noted, at the age of 85 years, of Lord Lister, widely known 

 through his introduction of antiseptic methods into medicine and surgery. 



Paul de Vuyst, formerly inspector-general of agriculture, has been made 

 director-general of agriculture for Belgium. 



Dr. G. Fingerling, of the Agricultural High School at Hohenheim, has been 

 appointed director of the Royal Agricultural Experiment Station at Mockern, 

 Saxony. 



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