700 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Bulletin de la Societc Portugaise de Sciences Xaturellcs is being issued at 

 Lisbon. Ttie initial number contains a statement I'egarding the society, its 

 constitution and membership, accounts of several of its meetings, and a-rticles 

 presented, of which several relate to trypanosomes. 



Boletin de la Camara AgricoJa de Fernando Poo is the monthly organ of the 

 Chamber of Agriculture of the island. 



TJie Extension is a new iieriodical on agricultural education issued monthly 

 by the North Dakota College, the January number being the first issue. 



Referee Board on Foods. — A Referee Board on Foods has been appointed by 

 President Roosevelt to render a final decision on any matters of controversy 

 which may arise in the administration^ of the national pure food and drug law. 

 The personnel of this board as recently announced is as follows : Ira Remsen, 

 president of Johns Hopkins University, chairman ; R. H. Chittenden, dean of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School and professor of physiological chemistry in Yale Uni- 

 versity ; J. H. Long, professor of chemistry in Northwestern University Medical 

 School : A. E. Taylor, professor of pathology in the University of California, 

 and C. A. Herter, professor of physiological chemisti-y in the College of Phy- 

 sicians and Surgeons, New York City. 



Miscellaneous. — A rice experiment station is to be opened at Vercelli, Italy, 

 during the present month. 



A bequest of about $180,000 has been made to the University of Manchester 

 for the establishment and maintenance of a professorship of cryptogamic botanj-. 



Dr. R. H. Lock, of Cambridge I'niversity, has been appointed assistant direc- 

 tor of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon. 



Dr. Ludwig Jost, of Bonn, has accepted the professorship of botany at the 

 University of Strassburg as successor to Solms Laubach. 



According to a note in Science, Rev. J. B. McClellan has resigned the princi- 

 palship of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, after more than a quar- 

 ter century's service. 



A recent issue of the Wiener Landirirtschaftliche Zietunr/ notes the death, on 

 January 21, of Dr. Ernst Kramer, director of the Agricultural Chemical Experi- 

 ment Station for Carniola, at Laibach. 



A recent number of Deutsche Londwirtsehaftliche Presse states that because 

 of lack of room for expansion, necessitated by the great increase in its work, 

 the agricultural experiment station at Marburg is to be removed to Cassel, 

 where it is to be connected with the pomological institute at Oberzwehren. In 

 view of this removal the director has been enabled to take advantage of a loan 

 of $59,500 through the Chamber of Agriculture of Hesse-Cassel. 



According to Mark Lane Express, " The National Societj' for Agriculture in 

 France has awarded to Monsieur Grandeau — who may be called the grand old 

 man of agricultural science in France — a gold medal. This is an exceptional 

 honor awarded to him in consideration of the great services rendered by him 

 for more than fifty years to agricultural science, in the study of problems con- 

 nected with animal and ^■egetable physiology, and as editor of the Journal 

 d'agrieulturc pratique, a joui-nal known throughout the world for its accurate 

 information in connection with agriculture." 



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