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portaut iuvestigatlons were also conducted by him personally or under his 

 direction, among them the pioneer work done in collaboration with Dr. Theobald 

 Smith, begim in December, 1885, which established the highly important prin- 

 ciple of vaccine therapy, and the determination of a protozoan as the cause of 

 Texas fever in cattle and the method of its transmission through the agency 

 of the cattle tick. 



From 1907 to 1912, Dr. Salmon was in charge of the veterinary department 

 in the University at Montevideo, Uruguay. During that time he was instru- 

 mental, among other things, in starting a veterinary journal published under 

 the title of Revista dc Medicina Vetennana de la Escuela de Montevideo, to 

 which he was a regular contributor. Returning to this coimtry, he gave con- 

 siderable attention to the preparation of hog cholera serum, and his last contri- 

 bution was a pjiper on that subject published in the American Veterinary 

 Revieic. 



Francis Humphreys Storer, one of the few remaining pioneers in agricultural 

 science in this country, died July 30. at the age of 82 years. His work was 

 carried on at the Bussey Institution of Harvard University, following his 

 appointment in 1870 as professor of agricultural chemistry, and the following 

 year as dean, of the newly opened enterprise. Here he not only carried on 

 instruction and administrative work until his retirement in 1907, but beginning 

 in 1871 conducted, with his assistants, many researches in agricultural chem- 

 istry, notably with fertilizers. His most valuable contribution, however, was 

 his treatise on Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry, the first 

 edition of which appeared in 1887, and which has run through seven editions 

 and been twice revised. This book rendered special service because of its time- 

 liness, appearing when the vast store of information it contained was very 

 inaccessible, and was very helpful to the experiment station movement then 

 just starting on a national scale under the Hatch Act. 



Dr. William Saunders, director of the Canadian Experimental Farms from 

 1886 to 1911, died in London, Ontario, September 13, at the age of 79 years, 

 Canadian Government in 1885 to report on expei'imental work in agriculture 

 comprehensive development. His experimental work was largely as a plant 

 breeder and hybridizer of fruits and cereals adapted to the Canadian climate, 

 the Marquis wheat developed by his son, Dr. Charles E. Saunders, from types 

 selected by him being one of the best-known productions. He was also much 

 interested in entomology, botany, pharmacy, and medicine, a founder of the 

 Canadian Entomologint and its editor from 1873 to 1886, and the author of an 

 unusually large number of articles, bulletins, reports, etc., among them his 

 well-known work on Insects Injurious to Foods (1883). He had received many 

 scientific honors, including the presidency of the Royal Society of Canada in 

 1906, and was made a companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George 

 by King E<lward VII in 1905. 



Reorganization of Agricultural Work in Algeria. — Under a law of December 

 3, 1913, providing for a readjustment of the iinnual appropriation of $400,000 

 for agricultural and other developmental work in Algeria, plans are being put 

 into effect for carrying on this work. Under these plans, $20,000 will be used 

 for cooperative agricultural credit societies and $40,000 for long-term agricul- 

 tural credit institutions. The remainder will be available for grants to build- 

 ing and marketing associations, mutual agricultural insurance societies, in- 

 struction, experimental, and extension work in agriculture, and a number of 

 nonagricultural purposes. 



The administration of the law is entrusted to a commission of which the 

 Governor General of Algeria is president and the Director of Agriculture, 



