800 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



ship of the Prussian Institute. Among his contril)Utions to meteorology were 

 papers on the thermo-dynamics of the atmosphere, which are the classical 

 memoirs on that subject. He was also greatly interested in the theory of 

 terrestrial magnetism. 



Dr. Allen MacFayden. a distinguished English bacteriologist, died March 1, 

 as the result of accidental infection in the laboratory. Among his investiga- 

 tions were studies of the bacteria in the digestive tract, bacteria thriving in 

 high temperatures, aud'tlie effect of low temperatures on micro-organisms. He 

 devised a method of grinding bacteria with liquid air and showed that the 

 " endotoxins " thus obtained could be used for immunizing. The api)lication of 

 his results to the treatment of human diseases had occupied his attention in 

 recent years. He was prominently connected with the establishment and man- 

 agement of the Lister Institute of Preventive :Medicine. and from 1901-190-i was 

 Fuller professor of physiology at the Royal Institution. 



Dr. Guido Krafft. professor of agriculture in the technical high school at 

 Vienna and a well-known agricultural writer and editor, died February 22, at 

 the age of <;2 years. 



Miscellaneous.— We note from i^cieiice that a gift of $400,000 has been received 

 by Teachers College of Columbia University for ;i building for its school of 

 domestic economy. 



The Society for Horticultural Science and the American Pomological Society 

 will hold their next meetings on the grounds of the Jamest<nvn Exposition. 

 September 25 and 26. 



Dr. D. E. Salmon, formerly chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry of this 

 Department, has sailed for iNIontevideo. Uruguay, where he will assume charge 

 of the veterinary department in the university of that city. 



A. F. Burgess, secretary of the Association of Economic Entomologists, has 

 resigned as State inspector of orchards and mirseries for Ohio and taken up 

 experimental work in Massachusetts with insecticides for the destruction of 

 the gypsy and brown-tail moths. 



Silas C. Mason, for several years professor of horticulture and forestry at 

 Berea College. Kentucky, has resigned to accept a position in the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry of this Department, in connection with the work upon plant life 

 history. He has been seiit to Arizona, where he will make a field study of 

 plants of economic importance in the semiarid and arid regions. 



The Goldsmiths Company has given SfHO.OOO to the Rothamsted Experiment 

 Station for investigations on soils. 



A subscription has been opened in Austria for the erection of a monument to 

 Gregor Mendel, the discoverer of the laws of heredity bearing his name. Prof. 

 E. von Tschermak is president of the committee, the American members of 

 which are W. A. Cannon, Desert Laboratory, Tucson. Ariz., and C. B. Daven- 

 port, Cold Spriug llarboi-, N, 1', 



o 



