400 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



the request of the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate the agriculture of the 

 Philippine Islands. He will be iu charge of au expedition to make an agricultural 

 survey of the islands, and will be assisted in this work by a detail of about 50 men 

 now serving in the Volunteer Army, most of them college graduates and several 

 graduates of our agricultural colleges. 



Necrology. — Dr. Ferdinand Colin died suddenly at Breslau June 25 of heart dis- 

 ease. He was born in 1824 and has occupied the chair of botany at Breslau since 

 L859. During recent years he has been engaged principally in the field of bacteri- 

 ology and has written a book on the Development of Microscopic Alg;e and Fungi, 

 showing the destructive action of parasitic forms. Dr. Brefeld, of Miinster, has 

 been elected his successor. 



Professor Gibelli, professor of botany and director of the botanic garden at Turin, 

 died September 16, 1898. 



Dr. Anton Ritter Kerner von Marilaun, director and professor of botany of the 

 botanical gardens at Vienna, died June 21, 1898. 



Prof, Ernst Stockhardt, formerly director of the Agricultural Institute at Jena, 

 died at Bautzen on March 27, 1898. 



Miscellaneous. — Notice is given by the Royal Academy of Economy and Agri- 

 culture of Florence that a meeting will be held at that place during 1899 to consider 

 the subject of the advanced or delayed maturity in certain plants under varying 

 conditions, the principal subjects of consideration being the difference in the growth 

 of woody and herbaceous plants when removed to latitudes or altitudes different 

 from those of their original habitat. The society has concluded to offer a prize of 

 1,200 francs and a diploma and silver medal for the best monograph on the subject 

 proposed. The papers must be written in Italian or French and submitted to the 

 academy by June 30, 1900. The secretary of the academy is A. Franchetti. 



A division of agriculture and forestry has been established in connection with the 

 German Imperial Health Office at Berlin. The new division will be in charge of 

 Prof. Georg Rorig, of Konigsberg. Prof. Moritz, formerly of the chemical division 

 of the Health Office, has accepted a position. Prof. J. Behrens, of Karlsruhe, has 

 been appointed agricultural bacteriologist, and Dr. C. Freiherr von Tubeuf, formerly 

 director of the Bavarian station of plant protection and plant diseases, will become 

 the botanist. 



A department of agronomy is to be added to the Bohemian technical high school 

 at Prague, and Dr. J. Stoklasa has been selected as professor of plant production. 



The University of Aberdeen, Scotland, has received a bequest of $60,000 for the 

 establishment of a garden uuder the name of the Cruickshank Botanical Garden, 

 and Prof. James W. Traid has been appointed to the directorship of the same. 



Dr. Charles R. Barnes, of the University of Wisconsin, has gone to Chicago Uni- 

 versity as professor of piant physiology. He has been succeeded in the University of 

 Wisconsin by Dr. R. A. Harper, late of Lake Forest University. 



Dr. Arthur Borntriiger has been chosen as director or the agricultural station at 

 Palermo, Sicily. 



Dr. Buchner, of Tubingen, has become professor in the agricultural high school of 

 Berlin. 



Dr. F. W. Dafert has been appointed director of the Imperial Agricultural Chem- 

 ical Experiment Station in Vienna. 



Dr. A. G. Grevillius has removed from Minister to the agricultural experiment 

 station at Kempen on the Rhine. 



Dr. Daniel Morris has been appointed commissioner of the Imperial Department 

 of Agriculture for the West Indies. Dr. Morris was formerly assistant director of 

 the Royal Gardens at Kew. 



Dr. A. Richter has been chosen chief of the botanical division of the Hungarian 

 National Museum. 



Dr. Hugo Zukal has been made extraordinary professor of phytopathology in the 

 High School for Soil Culture in Vienna. 



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