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Raukiu, who bas been associated with the field crops section of Experiment 

 Station Record, has resigned to become editor for the Minnesota University and 

 Station. 



Seaman A. Knapp School of Country Life. — A grant of $250,000 by the General 

 Education Board has been announced to the George Peabody College for Teach- 

 ers, at Nashville, Teuu. This fund is to be utilized for the establishment of the 

 Seaman A. Kuapp School of Country Life, which will give special attention to 

 the training of teachers for rui*al schools, and in accordance with the usual 

 policy of the board is contingent upon the raising of an equal sum by the insti- 

 tution. 



Eoyal International Horticultural Exhibition. — This exhibition, held in the 

 grounds of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, England, comprised numerous scientific 

 exhibits from various institutions and two conferences, one on May 23 on horti- 

 cultural education, and the other on ]May 24 on legislation in connection with 

 Insect pests. Papers were contributed to the educational conference by Dean 

 Bailey, of Cornell University, on Horticultural Education in America ; K. Wein- 

 hausen, of Berlin, on Horticultural Education in Germany ; Prof. A. Buyssens, 

 of the School of Horticulture at Yilvorde, on Horticultural Education in Bel- 

 gium ; and W. Hales on the Education of a Gardener. The value of importation 

 regulations as a means of preventing the introduction of plant pests was dis- 

 cussed by Prof. L. Ritzema Bos, of Holland. A. G. L. Rogers considered the aim 

 of legislation in Great Britain, and A. W. Sutton discussed import dues and 

 regulations. Legislation in connection with insect pests was discussed by H. 

 Maxwell-Lefroy, of India, and that for fungus diseases by H. T. Giissow, bota- 

 nist for the 'auadian Department of Agriculture. 



Hon. Walter Ruuciman, president of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 gave an address in which he announced the establishment of a new division of 

 the board for exclusive attention to horticultural interests. A. G. L. Rogers 

 hasbeenappointedheadof the division, and is to be assisted by an entomological 

 expert, eight other experts, and a clerical staff. 



Prospective Agricultural Meetings. — Announcement is made of the seventh 

 International Dry Farming Congress, which will meet at Lethbridge, Alberta, 

 October 21 to 26. The twentieth annual Irrigation Congress will be held at 

 Salt Lake City, Utah, September 30 to October 8. The American Breeders' 

 Association will meet at Columbia, S. C, January 24 to 27, 1913, in connection 

 with the fifth National Corn Exposition. 



Miscellaneous. — The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia has awarded to Dr. 

 Oswald Schreiner and Elbert C. Lathrop, of the Bureau of Soils of this Depart- 

 ment, the Edward Longstreth medal of merit for a paper entitled The Distribu- 

 tion of Organic Constituents in Soils, which appeared in the August, 1911, issue 

 of the Journal of tlie FrankUn Institute. 



Dr. E. J. Russell has been aiTiiointed director of the Rothamsted Station, in 

 succession to A. D. Hall, whose resignation has been previously noted. 



William R. Smith, for sixty years superintendent of the National Botanic 

 Gardens, died at Washington, D. C, July 7, at the age of 84 years. 



The death is noted of Dr. Ernst Schulze, professor of agricultural chemistry 

 at the Zurich Technological Institute, at the age of 72 years. 



