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aut iu dairy tests aucl fertilizer and feed inspection, vice Roy T. Harris, 

 resigned to engage in commercial worli. 



New Experiment Station in Argentina.— Tlie government of tlie province of 

 Tucnman, Argentina, has recently established an agricultural experiment sta- 

 tion near the city of Tncuman. R. E. Blonin, formerly assistant director of 

 the Louisiana Sugar Station, has accepted the directorship of the new station, 

 and Dr. Fritz Zerban, formerly chemist of Louisiana Sugar Station and more 

 recently director of the Sugar Experiment Station, at Lima, Peru, is to be 

 subdirector. 



Entomological Research in Africa. — The London Times announces the appoint- 

 ment by Lord Crewe of a scientific committee of 20, to be known as the 

 African Entomological Research Committee, the object of which will be to 

 further the study of economic entomology, with special reference to Africa. 

 Lord Cromer has consented to act as chairman and Guy A. K. Marshall as 

 scientific secretary. 



Arrangements are being made to send trained entomologists to the east and 

 west sides of tropical Africa, respectively, to stimulate interest in entomological 

 work among the officers and other residents of the regions, and to affoi'd instruc- 

 tion iu the use of scientific methods. It is hoped thereby to obtain an organized 

 body of investigators. The committee will also keep in touch with work already 

 under way, and has received offers of cooperation from the British Museum, 

 the Loudon and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine, and the leading Eng- 

 lish universities. It is planned to publish observatiims and other scientific 

 results in a .iournal or series of bulletins to be established. 



The Biltmore Forest School. — A note in Conservation states that the Biltmore 

 Forest School, Biltmore, N, C, was to close November 1, when Dr. C. A. Schenck, 

 who has been superintendent of the school for about 15 years, was to sever 

 his relations with the Biltmore estate. Some 25 of his students have signified 

 their intention of continuing their work under his direction and will accompany 

 him to Germany. A new school under his management is to be organized, to 

 retain the name of the Biltmore Forest School, but instead of having a single 

 fixed location it will carry on work over a wide range of forests. The prin- 

 cipal headquarters will be in Germany near the Black Forest, where the school 

 will be located for about 6 months each year. For the rest of the year practical 

 work in the forests of Maine, Wisconsin, and eastern Tennessee is contemplated. 



Agriculture in the University of The Philippines. — A college of agriculture was 

 opened at Los Banos, June 14, with about GO students in attendance. E. B. 

 Copeland is dean and professor of agriculture, Harold Cuzner, professor of 

 agronomy, Edgar M. Ledyard, professor of zoology, and S. B. Durham, professor 

 tif animal husbandry. 



Agricultural Course at the University of Manchester. — This university has de- 

 cided to establish a three-year course in agriculture leading to a degree in 

 science. The first year will, as a rule, be taken entirely at the university, while 

 the second and third years will be given partly at the university and partly 

 at the College of Agriculture of the Cheshire County Council at Holmes Chapel. 



Agricultural Course at Lenox College. — A recent number of Wallace's Farmer 

 states that a four-year course, dealing with animal husbandry, farm crops, soil 

 research, and rural citizenship, has been established at Lenox College, Hopkin- 

 ton, Iowa. The course is open to all farmers' sons, and does not require a pre- 

 paratory high-school training. C. N. Evans, a postgraduate student of the 

 Iowa State College, has been given charge of the new course. 



A New Polytechnic Institute with Agricultural Courses. — The Billings Poly- 

 technic Institute was opened at Billings, Mont., the first week in October, occu- 

 l)ying temporary quarters pending the completion of 7 buildings which are in 



