600 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



L'Agricoltura Coloniulc has been established as the uionthl.v organ of the 

 Italian Colonial Agricultural Institute, and the Office of Agricultural Experi- 

 mentation, of Eritrea, Africa. The scope of these institutions and of the 

 journal are set forth in the initial number, the purpose being to acquaint 

 intending emigrants from Italy with the existing conditions in various agri- 

 cultural sections of the world. An account is given of sisal culture, the pro- 

 duction of rubber, cotton growing in Eritrea, the sugar convention in Brussels, 

 and miscellaneous articles and notes. 



The Long Island Agronomist is being issued by the Long Island Railroad 

 Company as a " fortnightly record of facts "' derived from the company's 

 demonstration farms at Wading River and Medford, N. Y. 



Miscellaneous. — Eduard Buchner. professor of chemistry at the Agricultural 

 High School of Berlin, was recently awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry 

 for investigations in bacteriology, especially the enzyms of fermentation. 



Breeders' Gazette for January 8 contains an interesting illustrated account 

 of the feeding work at the Indiana Experiment Station with the carload of 

 short-fed cattle which received first prize in its class at the International Live 

 Stock Exposition. 



Rente lie Vitieulture contains a notice of the death, on November 7, of Dr. 

 G. Delacroix, director of the Station of Vegetable Pathology of the National 

 Agricultural Institute, Paris. A recent number of La Semaine Agrieole states 

 that Edouard Prilleux, honorary inspector-general of agricultural instruction, 

 has been appointed to succeed him, and that Edouard Griffon, of the National 

 School of Agriculture, Grignon, has been appointed assistant director. 



An account of the work of Prof. Lucien Marcus Underwood, who died 

 November IG, 1907, at Redding, Conn., at the age of 47 years, appears in Journal 

 of the 'Meiv York Botanical Garden for December. Professor Underwood's 

 work was chiefly on ferns, but some attention was also given to fungi. He 

 was biologist at the Alabama College and Station from September 1, 1S95, to 

 August 1, 1896, and published a number of articles on economic fungi, the treat- 

 ment of fungus diseases, and other subjects as bulletins of that station. 



Wiener Landicirtshaftliche Zeitung states that Ludwig Thais, assistant at 

 the Royal Hungarian Seed Control Station at Budapest, has been appointed 

 director of the station at Kassa, and that F. C. Dorre has retired as director 

 of the Agricultural Academy, Tetschen-Liebwerd, Austria. 



Prof. Karl Fruwirth, of the Agricultural High School at Hoheuheim, has 

 been appointed honorary lecturer in agriculture and forestry at the Royal Im- 

 perial Technical High School at Vienna. 



La Tribune Horticole announces that Alphonse Dachy has been appointed 

 director of the School of Arboriculture at Toui-nai. Belgium. 



An International Congress of Refrigerating Industries will be held in Paris, 

 in July, 1908, for the pux-pose of bringing together experts and representatives 

 of the various industries and enteritrises in which refrigeration is used to pre- 

 serve food materials for transportation. 



The Ceylon Agricultural Society reports that a new experimental garden is 

 being started at Bandaragama under the auspices of the Rayigam Korale 

 branth of the society. 



Cornell Countryman for January, 1908, gives a brief description of the instruc- 

 tion in agriculture at the Waterford (Pa.) High School. 



The December number of Agricultor Me.iieano gives an account of the work 

 of the Agricultural School at Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, for 1907. 



