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Necrology. — The Journal d'Af/ricultiirc Pratique announces the death of Louis 

 Gustave Heuze. in Paris on April 18, in his ninety-first year. Heuze, as pro- 

 fessor of agriculture, had beeu connected at different times with various institu- 

 tions in France, and for "more than fifty years had been one of the editors of the 

 Journal d' Agriculture Pratique. He was a voluminous writer, particularly on 

 agricultural topics. Among his best-known works are Les Plautes Cereales, Les 

 Plantes Fourrageres, Les Psiturages, Les Prairies Naturelles et les Hersages, 

 Les Plantes Industrielles, and Les Plautes Legumieres Cultivees en Plein 

 Champ, many of which have been issued in numerous editions. 



Sir Dietrich Brandis, the " father of systematic foi'est management in the 

 British Empire," died at Bonn, March 28, in his eighty-third year. His work 

 was done largely in India, where he developed the present extensive forest' 

 system and organized at Dehra the first forestry school, now the Imperial 

 Indian Forest School. Through the training of a large number of forestry 

 experts, he also had a great share in the development of forest conservation in 

 this country. His chief publication is Indian Trees, which appeared in 1906. 



Dr. Alexander Buchan, the eminent Scotch meteorologist and secretary of the 

 Scottish Meteorological Society since 18(i0, died May 13, at the age of 78. Among 

 his publications were the Handy Book of Meteorology, in 1807, an Introductory 

 Text-Book of Meteorology, in 1871, and many maps and charts. 



The death is noted of Sir Benjamin Baker, the distinguished English engineer, 

 whose name is associated with many great irrigation works of Egypt. 



Alfred Newton, ornithologist and professor of zoology and comparative 

 anatomy in the University of Cambridge for many years, died June 7. 



Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, for many years editor of The Gardeners' Chroniele, 

 died May 30, at the age of 74. He was a prolific writer on horticultural and 

 forest botany, and his work on Vegetable Teratology, first published in 1869, 

 i-emains a standard work. 



Miscellaneous. — According to Breeders' Gazette, A. E. Parr, Ph. D. (Leipsic), 

 a graduate of the University of Edini)urgh, and who x'ecently received the degree 

 of M. S. A. from Iowa State College for work in animal husbandry, has been 

 appointed director of agriculture and animal husbandry of British India and 

 will have chai'ge of the 39 experiment stations of that country. It is stated 

 that the salary attached to the position is $10,000 a year for ten years, followed 

 by a pension of $5,000 a year for life. 



At the recent session of the Texas legislature a law was passed requiring the 

 teaching of agriculture in the public schools of the State. 



According to ^eienee. Dr. John Bi'ittain, professor of chemistry at New Bruns- 

 wick University, has been appointed to the chnir of nature study at the Mac- 

 Donald Agricultural College. 



T. B. Wood has been appointed Drapers" professor of agriculture in the 

 University of Cambridge, to succeed T. H. Middleton, whose resignation has 

 been previously noted. 



Dr. A. W. Harris, formerly director of this Ofiice, was installed as president 

 of Northwestern University, June 20. 



Dr. Otto Foliu, research chemist at the McLean Hospital for the Insane, has 

 been appointed associate professor of biological chemistry at the Harvard Med- 

 ical School. 



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