500 EXPEBIMENT STATION EECORD. 



.$100.00() for the extermination of the green bug and other grain pests, and 

 $100,000 for experiments in dry farming; and to provide for the printing of 

 ]00.0(K;) copies of the special report on the diseases of cattle. 



Miscellaneous. — An American Society of Agronomy was formed on the occasion 

 of the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at 

 Chicago during the holidays. The officers of the society are M. A. Carlton, 

 president; C. P. Bull and B. M. Duggar, vice-presidents; T. 1.. Lyon, secretary, 

 and E. G. Montgomery, treasurer. Tlie object of the society is to encourage 

 investigation in the field of agronomy, and to afford an opportunity for the 

 discussion of methods and results. 



The Association of Economic Entomologists at its meeting in Chicago de- 

 cided to establish a .Journal <)f E-conoiuic Entomology to be issued bimonthly. 

 and to include the proceedings of its meetings, original papers, reviews, and 

 notes. E. P. Felt, of New York, was elected editor, and E. D. Sanderson, of 

 New Hampshire, business manager.' 



The Entomological Society of America has also decided to begin the issue of 

 a series of memoirs. 



A series of practical garden talks is announced by Secretary 11. D. Ileftien- 

 way of the Home Culture Clubs of Northami)ton, Mass., to be given at various 

 timesduring the winter. 



J. B. Farmer, professor of botany in the Royal C^ollege of Science in London, 

 has accepted the editorship of The Gardener's Chronicle in succession to the late 

 Dr. Maxwell T. Masters. 



A further grant of about .$1,000 a year has been made by the Drapers' Com- 

 pany to Cambridge Fniyersity to be applied toward the salary of a professor of 

 agricultural botany, and it is hoped to establish such a chair in the near future. 



J. R. Sage has resigned the office of director of the lowiV Weather and Crop 

 Service after nearly is years' service. 



W. E. Collinge has resigned the professorship of economic zoology in Bir- 

 mingham University to accept the directorship of the Cooper Research Labora- 

 tory at Berhamsted. 



Dr. G. Delacroix, director of the station for plant pathology connected with 

 the National Institute Agronomiciue, died in I'aris on November 2. 1907. 



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