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Miscellaneous. — W. T. Horne has, according to a note in Science, been ap- 

 pointed head of the department of plant pathology in the Central Agricultural 

 Experiment Station of Cuba. 



Percival Maw has been appointed to the chair of forestry and estate manage- 

 ment at the Royal Agricultural College, vice F. C. McClellan. 



The Wiener Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung reports the death, on February 17, of 

 Otto Kambersky, director of the Agricultural Experiment and Seed Control 

 Station and of the agricultural winter school at Troppau. 



A recent number of the Deutsche La ii die irtschaftliclie Presse notes the death, 

 on March 17, of Dr. Rudolf Aderhold, director of the Imperial Biological Insti- 

 tute for Agriculture and Forestry at Dahlem. 



La Semaine Apricole notes the death of Iloudet, director of the national 

 dairy school at Mamirolle. Doubs, since 1902, and states that he is succeeded 

 by B. Kohler, at present departmental pi'ofessor of agriculture in Doubs. 



Cornell Countryman states that Modesto Quiroga, a recent graduate of Cornell 

 and now professor of agronomy in the national university at Buenos Ayres, has 

 been appointed inspector of agricultural schools in the Argentine Republic. 

 Lupercio Fagundes, also a recent graduate, has been appointed vice-director of 

 the experimental substation for rice investigations at INIoreira Cezar, Sfio Paulo, 

 Brazil. 



The section of agriculture and pul)lic works of the imperial ministry of 

 Alsace-Lorraine has decided to estal)lish on June 1, at Metz, a l)ranch station of 

 the experiment station at Kolmar. Dr. Flubert Rfissler, assistant in the agri- 

 cultural division of the Kali Syndicate, has been appointed director of the 

 station. 



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