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as additional members of tlie execntire committee, E. H. Forbush of Massachu- 

 setts and Reuben Brigham of Marj-land. Committees were also provided on 

 cooperation witlx otlier organizations and on standards and exhibits. The 

 executive committee is to serve as the program committee and to investigate 

 the feasibility of publishing the proceedings. The next meeting is to be held 

 at the University of Wisconsin in June, 1915. 



Fifth International Congress on Rice Culture. — This congress met at Valencia, 

 Spain, May 16 to 24, under the patronage of the King of Spain. The work was 

 divided into eight sections dealing with such topics as rice varieties and their 

 improvement, manures for rice, cultural operations and machinery, I'ice diseases, 

 the rice trade, cooperation as applied to rice, and the relations of rice growing 

 and malaria. 



Fifth International Congress of Genetics. — It is announced that this congress 

 will be held in Berlin in 1916, beginning with the first week in September. 

 The subcommittee in charge of the preliminary arrangements consists of 

 Professors von Rilmker and Baur, their addresses being the Royal Agricultural 

 High School, 4 Invalidenstrasse, Berlin. 



Necrology. — Felix Wahnsehaffe, an eminent authority on soils, died at Berlin, 

 Germany, January 20, 1914, in the sixty-third year of his age. His life and 

 services, especially to agriculture, deserve more than passing notice. . 



In his thirty-nine years' connection with the Royal Prussian Geological Land 

 OfHce he made notable and valuable contributions to the knowledge of soils, 

 the more important and permanent results of which are embodied in his An- 

 leitung zur Wissenschaftlichen Bodenuntersuchung published first in 1887 and 

 revised in 1903 and 1914 (in collaboration with F. Schucht). 



Wahnschaffe identified himself especially with investigations in glacial ge- 

 ology, the study of soils on a broad geological basis, the application of improved 

 methods in the mechanical and chemical analysis of soils, and the agronomic 

 and geological mapping of soils. He specialized particularly in the study of 

 the geology and agricultural value of the flat lands of north Germany. In 

 this, as in most of his work, he had in mind not only the elucidation of the 

 scientific problems involved but also the utilization of the lands for agricultural 

 purposes and especially for home building. He was influential in the founding 

 of the Internationnlen Mitteilungen fiir Bodenkunde, and was active in the 

 work of the International Agrogeelogical Congress. 



New Journals. — Revista del Ministerio de Indnstrias is being issued monthly 

 in Uruguay. The initial number contains an account of the Institute of 

 Agronomy and Model Farm, an article on Impotence and Sterility in Domestic 

 Animals, statistical and other data regarding various agricultural industries, 

 brief popular articles, etc. 



Die Natuncissenschaften is a weekly devoted to the natural sciences, medi- 

 cine, and technology. Tlie initial number contains, among others, nn article by 

 Dr. N. Zuntz on The Significance of the Micro-organisms in Digestion, and one 

 by Dr. Rudolf Ditmar on The Way to Artificial Rubber. 



Boletin de la Sociedad Forestal Argentina, is being published trimonthly by 

 the Forestry Society of Ai'gentina and consists largely of short popular articles 

 of interest to foresters and horticulturists. 



