500 EXPERIMKNT STATION HKCOHD. 



International Agricviltural Exhibition in Argentina. — A cljuise In tbe urj^ent 

 deficiency .'ipproiiriMtiou ;ut rocciilly passed by Coiij^rcss, .uitliorizes the pur- 

 tlcipution by tbe Uuitecl States in tbis exbibition, wbicli, as previously an- 

 nounced, will open in Buenos Aires on June 3. An allotment of .$30,000 has 

 been made to tbis Department, which is preparing an exhibit of its work. 



First International Congress of Entomology. — A movement is under way to 

 organize a imrcly (Mitomolo,t,'ical congress to bold triennial sessions about a fort- 

 night before the meetings of the International Congress of Zoology. In accord- 

 ance with tbis plan, the first of these congresses has been called to meet in 

 Brussels, August 1-0, during the International Exposition and preceding tbe 

 Eighth International Congress of Zoology, at Griitz, Austria. The subjects to 

 be considered include systematic entomology, nomenclature, anatomy, physiology, 

 psychology, ontogeny, phylogeny, ecology, mimicry, etiology, bionomy, paleon- 

 tology, zoogeography, museology, and medical and economic entomology. 



International Horticultural Congress. — In connection with the forthcoming 

 International Exposition, an International Horticultural Congress will convene 

 in Brussels from April 30 to JNIay 3. The congress will be organized in seven 

 sections, namely: Floriculture, pomology, market gardening, scientific horticul- 

 ture and its popularization, the economics of horticulture, landscape gardening. 

 and apparatus and special machinery. The program also Includes excursions 

 to numerous points of interest. 



Second International Congress of Alimentary Hygiene and of the Rational 

 Feeding of Man. — The place of meeting of this congress has been changed from 

 Versailles, as previously announced, to Brussels, October 4-S. mider the auspices 

 of tbe Belgian Government. Dr. H. W. Wiley, of this Department, is acting 

 as the AnuM'ican representative of tbe Congress. 



Necrology. — Alexander J. Bonduraut, agriculturist at the Alabama Station 

 from 1892 to 1896 and for much of this time professor of agriculture in the 

 Alabama Polytechnic Institute, died at Lynchburg, Va., March 6, aged 74 years. 



J. J. H. Gregory, well known as a seedsman, of Marblehead, Mass., and as a 

 writer upon squashes and other vegetables, died February 20, at the age of 

 83 years. 



Dr. Thomas Taylor, microscopist in this Dei)artment from 1871 to 1895, died 

 in Washington, D. C. January 21. at the age of 90 years. 



Miscellaneous. — The Fifteenth International Congress of Hygiene and Demog- 

 raphy, which was to have been held in this country during 1910. has been post- 

 poned until 1911 or 1912, at a place to be selected by the President of the United 

 States. 



The first winter institute for farmers to be offered by the Florida Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical College for Negroes was held at Tallahassee .January 

 10-13, with a large attendance. 



The University of Melbourne has recently inaugurated a course in agricul- 

 ture, with W. A. Osborne, now professor of physiology, as dean of the faculty of 

 agriculture. 



Ronald V. O. Hart Synnot has been appointed director of the department of 

 Hgriculture and horticulture in University College, Reading, vice Professor 

 Percival, who has been pi'omoted to the chair of agricultural botany. 



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