400 NOTES. 



Kennedy, of the Iowa College and Station, was one of the judges, and among 

 the speakers and demonstrators from the colleges and stations were J. H. Shep- 

 perd, of North Dakota ; Director Randall, D. A. Gaumnitz, and M. H. Reynolds, 

 of Minnesota, and A. T. Peters, of Nebraska. A student stock-judging contest, 

 in which 4 colleges participated, resulted in the award of first and third 

 places to Minnesota, second, fifth, and eighth to South Dakota, fourth and fifth 

 to Washington, and sixth to North Dakota. 



Miscellaneous. — W. R. Buttenshaw, botanist in the Indian Agricultural Serv- 

 ice, died suddenly September 9, at the age of 30 years. He was from 1899-1903 

 lecturer in agricultural science in Jamaica, and scientific assistant in charge 

 of publications at Barbados until May, 1907. 



A studentship in medical entomology was I'ecently established at Cambridge 

 University on the basis of a grant from the tropical diseases research fund, 

 administered by the British colonial office. A. H. Lees, King's College, has been 

 appointed to the position. 



B. N. Wall has been appointed head of the agricultural department in South- 

 eastern Agricultural College, W. G. Godwin head of the chemical department, 

 and C. F. Gimingham head of the newly established department of soil bac- 

 teriology. 



The Boletim da Af/i'iciiUiira, Yiacao, Industrla e Obras Publicas of Bahia, 

 Brazil, announces the establishment this year of an agricultural institute under 

 the direction of Dr. L. Zehutner. 



A department of economic biology has been established at Bristol University 

 College for the purpose of giving gratuitous information to farmers, fruit grow- 

 ers, and those engaged in fisheries in the western counties of England. 



The Minister of Industries and Public Works of Chile has ordered the estab- 

 lishment of a veterinary station under the direction of Francisco Calvanese in 

 connection with the Practical School of Agriculture at Concepcion, similar to 

 the station now connected with the NoruKil School of Agriculture at Santiago. 



According to a note in fScieiice, Daniel Berthelot has been appointed director 

 of the laboratory for plant physics and A. Muntz director of the laboratory for 

 plant chemistry at the Meudon Experiment Station. 



Prof. M. Hollrung has severed his connection with the Experiment Station 

 .for Plant Protection at Ilalle, and the station has been united with the Agricul- 

 tural Chemical Experiment Station at that place, and transferred to the rooms 

 of the latter institution. 



A x'ecent number of IJlustricrte Landtcirtsch a f tl ichc ZcitiDig states that Doctor 

 Lubers, of the agricultural school at Dahme, on October 1, has become director 

 of the newly opened agricultural school at Bojanowo, in the Province of I'osen. 



The Lieutenant-Governor at Libreville, in the French Kongo, has Issued an 

 order designating Director Bories, of the Trial Garden at Libreville, as instructor 

 in practical agriculture in the normal school of the Colony of Gabon. 



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