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submitted l)y n foiiniiitlcc .-ipiKiinltMl ai the Inst con.icross :it T.icuic. Other proli- 

 leins to roccivc (•oiisi(l(>i-.i1inn will he tlic oi-g:iiiiziition of exlilijits iiiid comijeti- 

 tions of farm niacliiiicry and the promotion of conditions tendinjj toward its 

 more extensive use. and tlie development of instruotion in a.ijricultural meclian- 

 ics. The secretary of the congress is Prof. Josef Ilausler, Schlauflerfiasse <!. 

 Vienna, to wiiom api>li<-a1i()ns f<pr re^istr\- should I>e addressed. 



Argentine Republic to Test von Behring Treatment for Tuberculosis. — Accord- 

 ing; to Breeders' (Uizette the Argentine Republic is to make an (>xtensive trial 

 of the von HehrinR treatment for tuberculosis. I*. II. Kilmer, an assistant of 

 Doctor von Behring, has been secured for one year to eciui]) a hospital in Buenos 

 Ayres for the treatment of cattle in quarantine which hav(» reacted to the 

 tuberculin test on importation. Animals failiui;- t(» i-esi)ond to the treatment 

 after six months will be destroyed. "Cures" will be kei)t under sui)ervision for 

 three years -and then killed and given a thorough i)ost-mortem examination. It 

 is hopeti in this way to decrease materially the ))resent heavy losses from 

 tuberculosis. 



Boys' and Girls' Contests in Kansas. — An attempt is to be made to extend 

 the boys' corn contest held last year in 47 of the lOf) counties of Kansas to the 

 entire Fitate, and to arrange for additional boys' and girls' coiitests in growing 

 dwarf nillo maize, durum wheat, sugar beets, garden crops, potatoes, and flowers, 

 and in baking. s(>wiug, mending, and canning. This movement is under the 

 sui)ervision of the State superintendent of farmers' institutes, but the details 

 of the contest will be left largely with the county organizations. It is recom- 

 mended that the prizes consist in part of trips to the agricultural college at the 

 time of the winter institutes and State contests. 



Department of Nutrition of the Carnegie Institution. — The Carnegie In- 

 stitution has decid<'d t(» locate its laboratory for the study of problems in 

 human nutrition in Boston, where a site has been obtained in close [)roximit.v 

 to the new buildings of the Harvard Medical School and near several hospitals. 

 The laboratory will contain a res[)iration calorimeter and is to be equipped 

 with complete accessory apparatus. 



Necrology. — Sir Michael Foster, the distinguished physiologist, author of the 

 well-known Textbook of Physiology, and the successor of Huxley as Fuller 

 pi'ofessor of physiology in the Royal Institution, died January 29 in his seventy- 

 first year. For twenty-two years he was secretary of the Royal Society of 

 Great Britain, professor of physiology in the University of London since 1869, 

 professor of physiology at Cambridge from 1883 to IDO:?, and since 1901 

 jiresident of the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis. He was well known and 

 held in high esteem in the United States, wliere ho delivered a series of lectures 

 on the history of i)hysiology before the ITniversity of California. 



J. Vilbouchevitch, founder and editor of the Journal d'Agricultitrc Tropicale, 

 died January 27. He was born at Bielostok. Russia, June 24, 18(>8, and edu- 

 cated at the Agricultural Academy of Moscow. In 1889 he made a study in 

 France of alkali soils, their flora and culture, publishing a work entitled Les 

 Plantes Utiles des Terrains 8al(^s in 1892. On his return to Russia he assisted 

 in the organization of the horticultural exposition in St. Petersburg, and was for 

 several years attached to the Russian ministry of agriculture, studying refor- 

 estation and related prol)lems. In 1901 he founded in Paris the Journal d'Afjri- 

 eulture Tropicale. which soon became an important factor in the development of 

 tropical agriculture, jnirticularly in the French colonies. 



Tlie death is announced of Prof. William von Bezold, director of the Prussian 

 Meteorological Institute. In 1878 he was made director of the Central Moteoro- 

 logic:i! station in P.avaria and organized the meterological service in that 

 country, remaining in that position until 1885, when he accepted the director- 



