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the articles in the iiiitiiU number are several dealing with yellow fever and 

 tuberculosis. 



Zeitschrift fiir ImmKiiildtsforschinifj und experimentelle TJirrapic is being 

 issued at irregular intervals. Part 1 of each number is to be devoted to origi- 

 nal articles, and part 2 to abstracts of work in immunity and experimental 

 therapy. 



O Entomologista Brasihiro is a monthly journal of economic entomology, pub- 

 lished at Sao Paulo, Brazil. Considerable attention is given in the initial 

 numbers to apiculture. 



Miscellaneous. — Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, lecturer in economic entomology in the 

 University of Manchester, has accepted an appointment as entomologist to the 

 Dominion of Canada, vice the late Dr. James Fletcher, and will enter upon his 

 new duties in September. 



Francis Watts, analytical and agricultural chemist and superintendent of 

 agriculture for the Leeward Islands, has been appointed imperial commissioner 

 of agriculture for the AVest Indies, in succession to Sir Daniel Morris, and has 

 entered upon his duties. 



Dr. W. Benecke, of the botanical institute of the University of Kiel, has been 

 chosen the successor of Dr. G. Karsten, formerly professor of botany at the 

 University of Bonn. 



It is hoped that the new agricultural buildings for Cambridge University 

 will be ready for occupancy in October. The cost with equipment is expected 

 to be about $87,500. 



The Fourth National Dairy Show, which will be held October 1.5-24, has 

 been transferred from Chicago to Milwaukee, where a new auditorium is 

 being completed. H. E. Van Norman, of the Pennsylvania College and Station, 

 has been chosen secretary and manager of the association. 



Journal des 8ociet^s Agricoles du Brabant ct du Hainault for March 13 

 and 27 contains an article on The Function of the Experiment Stations with 

 Reference to the Popularization of Agricultural Knowledge, by P. de Vuyst, 

 which deals largely with the work of the stations in this country. 



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