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individuals, aud (c) by means of plats in scliool gardens, was recommended, 

 and the scope and objects of field experiments were outlined. The supplement- 

 ing of field experiments by pot experiments in the investigation of certain prob- 

 lems was also recommended. 



The testing and certification of all calibrated glassware, especially that used 

 in dairies and butter factories, and the allowable limits of error are to be 

 reported upon at the next meeting. Referees were appointed to investigate 

 and report upon the Kjeldahl method with and without the addition of mercury 

 (C. J. Briinnich) and upon the determination of iron and alumina in phosphate 

 rock (B. C. Aston). 



The officers elected were F. B. Guthrie, president ; C. J. Briinnich, vice-presi- 

 <ient ; W. P. Wilkinson, secretary ; B. C. Aston, additional raemlier of execu- 

 tive committee. 



Miscellaneous. — The first agricultural high school in Maryland was recently 

 opened at Calvert. As previously announced, the school is under the manage- 

 ment of the Cecil County school board, and H. O. Sampson, of this Department, 

 is principal. The school lias attracted considerable attention and is reported 

 to be a success. 



A new hall and science laboratories, affording accommodations for theoret- 

 ical and practical work in agriculture, biology, physics, chemistry, and geog- 

 raphy, have just been opened by the University College, Reading. 



The consul-general of Panama reports that the Republic has contracted with 

 Dr. D. H. Lupi, a well-known Venezuelan agriculturist, to establish a school 

 of agriculture in Panama. Before opening the school Dr. Lupi will travel 

 throughout the Republic and report his agricultural investigations to the gov- 

 ernment. 



The Industrialist states that K. C. Davis, principal of the Dunn County 

 School of Agriculture, of Menominee, Wis., has been offered a position as dean 

 of St. Lawrence University, which, as previously announced, was granted an 

 appropriation by the New York legislature for the establishment and mainte- 

 nance of an agricultural course. 



Prof. J. S. Newman, recently connected with Clemson College and the South 

 Carolina Experiment Station, has been granted a pension by the Carnegie 

 Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 



T. H. Middleton, professor of agi-iculture in the University of Cambridge, 

 has been appointed assistant secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fish- 

 eries, in succession to Dr. W. Somerville, who has assumed charge of the 

 instruction in agriculture and forestry at Oxford. 



James T. Crawley, I'ecently connected with the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' 

 Experiment Station, has been appointed director of the Cuban Station, in suc- 

 cession to F. S. Earle. 



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