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Necrology. — Tlirougli the death of Dr. Saturnin Arloing, the noted French 

 biicteriologist and director of the Veterinary School of Lyon, which tooli place 

 March 21 at the age of 65 years, the veterinary profession has lost one of its 

 leaders. 



Dr. Arloing graduated from the Lyon Veterinary School in 1866 at the age 

 of 20. Soon after ho joined the staff of this school and remained until 1870, 

 when he was called to the chair of anatomy at the Toulouse Veterinary School. 

 He returned to Lyon in 1876 as professor of physiology and 10 years later 

 was appointed director of the school, a position which he held until his death. 

 In 1884 Dr. Arloing was also appointed professor of physiology to the Faculty 

 of Sciences at Lyon and 2 years later to the chair of experimental and compara- 

 tive medicine. In 1900 he founded the Pasteur Institute at Lyon. 



Dr. Arloing conducted valuable studies in anatomy and physiology, particu- 

 larly of the nervous system, the sterilizing action of sunlight on anthrax six)res, 

 the role of streptococci in puerperal septicemia, on toxins, antitoxins, etc., 

 and was a collaborator in the preparation of recent editions of Chauveau's 

 Comparative Anatomy and the author of a valuable work on histology. His 

 principal work was in the field of bacteriology ; with his collaborators, Cornevin 

 and Thomas, he was the first to demonstrate fully and describe the bacillus 

 of symptomatic anthrax. The method of protective inoculations against the 

 disease which these 3 workers devised has since been practiced successfully 

 throughout the world. It was, however, to the investigation of tuberculosis 

 that a large part of his time was devoted, during the last 10 years special at- 

 tention being given to the antituberculous inoculation of cattle. In 1908 he 

 visited this country and participated in the meetings of the International Con- 

 gress of Tuberculosis, being one of the leading opponents of Koch's theoiy of 

 the nontransmissibility of the bovine type of the tubercle bacillus to man. 



During his life! ime Dr. Arloing received many public and professional honors, 

 such as the Commandership of the Legion of Honor, membership in the National 

 Academy of Medicine, and honorary membership in the American Veterinary 

 Medical Association. 



Country Life Meeting in Vermont. — At a recent meeting at White River Junc- 

 tion, Vt., under the auspices of the Windsor County Y. M. C. A., addresses 

 bearing on the country life problem were delivered by ex-President Theodore 

 Roosevelt, President Kenyon L. Butterfield, of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, and Albert E. Roberts, international secretary of the Y. M. C. A. 

 President Butterfield took for his subject The Cooperation of Community Insti- 

 tutions, pointing out that rural progress is to be attained through the coopera- 

 tion of all forces interested in rural development. 



Sixth Dry Farming Congress. — The 1911 session of this congress will be held 

 at Colorado Springs, Colo., October 16-20. 



Miscellaneous. — R. Newstead, lecturer in economic entomology in the Liver- 

 pool School of Tropical Medicine, has been appointed to the newly established 

 professorship of entomology in the University of Liverpool. 



The April Bulletin of the Pan American Union states that Fernando Bercelo 

 has donated for a period of ten years 250 hectares of land in Bahia Blanca, 

 Argentina, for the establishment of an industrial agi'icultural school. 



A recent number of the Deutsche LandwirtschaftUche Presse announces the 

 establishment of a chair of city and rural architecture at the Technical High 

 School of Danzig. 



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