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tion. which has for its object the establisliment and maintenance of an experi- 

 ment station in Palestine. Funds for tlie enterprise have been furnished by 

 several Jews in this country, Jacob H. Schiff and J. Rosenwald contributing 

 $20,0(K) for initial equipment, and, together with Paul M. Warburg, I. N. Solig- 

 man. I. Straus, and others, guaranteeing a minimum budget of $10,000 for 

 maintenance. 



A site has been secured about 7 miles from Haifa, Palestine. A tract of 12.") 

 acres of laud lias already been obtained, and a station building is to be erected. 



The station is under the general management of a board of trustees, mainly 

 citizens of this country, the president being J. Rosenwald, of Chicago. Aaron 

 Aaronsohn, a graduate of the agricultural scliool at Grignon, who has been con- 

 ducting investigations in Palestine and the surrounding region, will be director. 



Both research and practical demonstration worli are contemplated, the general 

 object being the improvement of agriculture among tlie Jewish colonists and 

 farmers of the region. A special line of investigation is to be the wild proto- 

 types of the cereals. 



Northwestern and Southwestern Country Life Commissions. — According to a 

 recent number of the North Pacific Rural Sinrit, a plan is being developed by 

 which the States of Oregon, Idaho, Montana,*and Washington may provide for 

 the appointment of a joint commission on country life. In Oregon the meniDers 

 have already been appointed. The report of the Roosevelt Commission ha& 

 been reprinted voluntarily by the Spokane Chamber of Commerce and at its 

 own expense. 



Announcement has also been made of a meeting of the Southwest Interstate 

 Commission on Country Life at Dallas, Tex., May 22 and 23, in which it is 

 expected that delegates from 15 States will participate. 



Miscellaneous. — Emile Breal, well known for his contributions to the subject 

 of nitrogen assimilation by leguminous plants, died in Paris, December 21, 1909, 

 in his seventy-tliird year. He was one of the first to isolate the organism of 

 symbiosis and to conduct inoculation experiments with it in culture. The 

 Academy of Sciences awarded to him the Desmazieres prize in 1SS9 in recogni- 

 tion of the importance of his work. 



Dr. M. Greshoff, well known for his investigations on cyanogenetic glucosids 

 in plants, died in Haarlem, December S, 1909. 



An International Congress of Tropical Agriculture will be held in Brussels, 

 Belgium, in May, 1910. The International Botanical Congress will meet at 

 Brussels at the same time. 



A recent number of La Semaihc Agricole states that Director J. Crochetelle, 

 of the Agricultural Station at Lezardeau, near Quimperle, has been appointed 

 director of the Agricultural Station of Somme, at Amiens. 



Prof. R. H. Bittiu has succeeded Dr. William Carruthers as consulting bot- 

 anist to the Royal Agricultural Society of England. 



Dr. H. T. Gussow has been appointed botanist to the Dominion Experimental 

 Farms, Ottawa, Canada. ' 



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