800 EXPEKIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Formacl, Adolpb Eiclilioni, Albert Hassall. ami I{. J. Staftoi-d, of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, of this Department. 



New Journals. — Verslagen van LandhouuLundiyc Ondcrzockingcn dcr Rijks- 

 landbotncprocfstations is being issued from time to time by the director of 

 agi-iculture of the Netherlands to serve as a record of the scientific investiga- 

 tions of the experiment stations of that country. 



Revistci Official Missdo Agronomiea a Caho \'crdc has been established as the 

 monthly organ of the Portuguese Agricultural Mission to Cape \'erde and is to 

 be devoted especially to the promotion of agriculture in that colony. 



The Jounial of Economic Entomology has been established as a bi-monthly 

 by the Association of Economic Entomologists as its official organ. Dr. E. Porter 

 Felt is editor, A. F. Burgess associate editor, and Director E. D. Sanderson 

 business manager, with I^. O. Howard, James Fletcher, H. T. Fernald, S. A. 

 Forbes, H. A. Morgan, and Herbert Osborn as the advisory board. The initial 

 number contains lists of meetings, officers and members of the association, the 

 proceedings of the annual meeting at Chicago, December 27-28, 1907, editorials, 

 book reviews, and entomological notes. 



Necrology. — In an obituary note on Sir Robert Strachey, who died February 

 12 at the age of 91, Xatiirc states that "probably no single person had clearer 

 views of the future that lies before metei)rological work as a matter of practi- 

 cal influence upon everyday life, or was more fully conscious of the long years of 

 observation, organization, and study that are necessary to secure the advantages 

 which will ultimately more than rewai'd the long years of patient inquirj-." 



E. J. Castle, well known as a horticultural writer, died at Lyminge, Kent, 

 March 4, at the age of 39 years. 



Ivan Stozir, founder and former director of the Koyal Meteorological Observ- 

 atory at Agram, Hungary, died February 12, after a brief illness. 



The deaths are announced of Dr. A. Iliimpler, professor of agricultural chem- 

 istry in Breslau, and Dr. Rinaldo Ferrini, professor of technological physics at 

 Milan. 



Miscellaneous.— The Fifth Annual Conference of the Rhode Island League 

 of Rural Progress was held in I'rovidence March lO-lS. The programme in- 

 cluded addresses and discussions on Woman's Work in the Home, Agriculture 

 as a Branch of Industrial Education, conferences on grange work, religious 

 work, and home education in the rural communities, and a symposium by dele- 

 gates of the various organizations represented on The Possibilities of Rural 

 Rhode Island and What the League- Can Do Toward Realizing Them. 



Outing begins in the April number a series of articles on The New Spirit of 

 the Farm, by Agnes C. I^aut. The opening chapter, entitled I'low Time, gives a 

 popular account, with a large number of illustrations, of some of the work under 

 way at the Minnesota and Wisconsin colleges of agriculture and experiment 

 stations. 



Dr. F. Mach of the agricultural experiment station at Marburg has been ap- 

 pointed director of the station at Augustenberg in Baden. 



Dr. Friedrich Loeffler, professor at Gi'eifswald, has been called to the chair 

 of hygiene in the Berlin Veterinary School in the place of Pi'ofessor OstSrtag. 



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