iJOU EXPEKIMEXT STATION KECOKD. 



primarily fur nieinbers of the several lueal agricultural associations and for 

 such members of the laudholdiug and farming classes as take a personal interest 

 in agricultural matters. The initial number contains reprints of department 

 publications, extracts from other journals, and short notes on a variety of 

 agricultural crops and allied topics. 



Miscellaneous. — Di\ G. Hellmann has been appointed professor of meteorology 

 in the University of Berlin and director of the Prussian Meteorological Service 

 iu succession to the late von Bezold. 



Wieiier LandwirtscJiaftlicJie Zeitunn announces the retirement on account of 

 ill health of Dr. C. Fruwirth, of the Royal Agricultural High School of Wlirtem- 

 berg. 



Dr. Gustavo d'Utra. former director of the Agronomic Institute at Sao Paulo, 

 Brazil, has been reappointed to that position and given a commission to travel 

 in Europe and the United States for the purpose of studying the institutions 

 devoted to agricultural education. 



Deutsche LamlirirtscJiafiUcJie Prcsse notes the I'esignation of P. Peterson as 

 director of the Experiment and Control Station at Oldenburg-on-the-Main. Dr. 

 F. Honcamp has been appointed his successor. 



The National School of Agriculture, formerly located at San Jacinto, Mexico, 

 is to be removed to a new site near the City of Mexico, where sufficient land will 

 be provided for the use of the school and also for experimental purposes, and 

 where suitable buildings will be erected. The control of the school has recently 

 been transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of 

 Public Instruction and the Fine Arts. 



Dr. Albert E. Leach, chief analyst of the Massachusetts State Board of 

 Health, has accepted the position of chief of the new food inspection laboratory 

 established I\v the Bureau of Chemistry of this Department at Denver. 



The administration building of \h» meteorological (tbservatory of the Weather 

 Bureau, at Mount Weather, Va., was burned October 2:1 The loss approximates 

 $25,000, including some valuable instruments. 



J. E. Roadhouse, a graduate of the University of California, a postgraduate 

 student at Cornell University, and at present connected with the irrigation 

 investigations of this Office, has been elected dean of faculty for the newly 

 organized Hawaiian College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. It is expected 

 that he will enter ui>on his duties about .January 1, 1008. The last territorial 

 legislature approiiriated $2.5.000 for a building and for maintenance for two 

 years. A i>reitaratory class is to be organized next spring, and the opening of 

 the college is planned to take place in the fall. 



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