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thirteen entirely recovered, and the others showed great improvement The 

 operation originally consisted in the removal of the vocal cords and the mucous 

 membrane of the ventricle of the larynx, but better success has attended the 

 less severe operation of the removal of merely the mucous membrane. 



The officers chosen for the ensuing year \vei"e as follows : President, W. H. 

 Dalrymple ; secretary, R. P. Lyman ; and treasurer, G. R. White. 



Department of Agriculture of the Federated Malay States. — The laboratory and 

 office building of the Department of Agriculture at the Rubljer Experiment 

 Plantations, Kuala Lumpur, is approaching completion. It is a two-story 

 building 130 feet long, containing a capacious chemical laboratory and other 

 laboratories for the director, the government mycologist, the entomologist, the 

 superintendent and other scientific workers, as well as a library and offices. Dr. 

 W. J. Gallagher, a gi-aduate of the Royal LTniversity of Ireland, who has 

 been engaged in research in natural history at Queen's College, has been 

 appointed mycologist of the Department. 



A New Demonstration Farm in Victoria. — The Minister of Agriculture, through 

 the agency of the Lands Purchase and Management Board, has come into the 

 possession of an estate of 540 acres at Wyuna, which will be devoted to demon- 

 strations showing the profits to be made by working small areas under irriga- 

 tion, especially in the production of forage and its utilization by cattle. 



Tobacco Experiment Stations in South Africa. — Tobacco experiment stations 

 have recently lieen established at Rustcnburg. Barberton, and Pretoria. Selec- 

 tion and breeding experiments are being carried on and attention is also being 

 given to problems of curing. At Rustenburg and Barberton curing and fer- 

 menting slK'ds have been erected. 



School for Bee Culture. — The Association of Apiculturists of the Province of 

 Schleswig-Holstein has located the first provincial school for bee culture in 

 Prussia at Preetz, the city donating the site and making an appropriation of 

 .$2,380 to establish the school. The well-known apiculturist, Witt-IIavetoft, was 

 appointed director. The first course, for young men who wish to become pro- 

 fessional apiculturists. will open March 1, 1908. and close December 1. Short 

 courses of from 8 to 14 days for older apiculturists are also to be held during 

 the year. 



Miscellaneous. — The Transvaal AfiricuUuruJ Journal notes the death on May 14 

 of Dr. Duman Ilutcheon, director of agriculture of Cape Colony. Preceding his 

 appointment as director of agriculture Dr. Hutcheon had been chief veterinary 

 surgeon of Cape Colony for 25 years. 



Thomas Macfarlane, since 188G chief analyst to the Inland Revenue of the 

 Dominion of Canada, died suddenly of heart failure, at Ottawa. June 10. He 

 was the author of a large number of reports and pamphlets dealing especially 

 with the analysis and composition of Canadian food products. 



We learn from La Tribune Horticolc of the recent death of Etienne GrifiCon, 

 director of the school of arboriculture and horticulture at Tournay. 



Dr. Heinrich Hasselbring, assistant in botany in the University of Chicago, 

 has been appointed assistant botanist at the Cuban Experiment Station. 



It is proposed to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Roseworthy Agri- 

 cultural College, the first of its kind in Australia, by the erection of a memorial 

 to Ridley, the inventor of the Australian reaper. 



Augustine Henry, of the Royal University of Ireland, has been ai)pointed 

 reader in forestry in Cambridge University. 



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