700 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



I >]•. van Tieghem, the well-known botanist, has been elected president of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences. 



J>r. W. Schimpfer, of Bonn, has accepted a call to Basel as professor and director 

 of the botanical garden. 



Dr. F. W. C. Areschoug, professor of botany of the University of Lund, has retired 

 and Prof. S. Berggren has been chosen as his successor. 



Dr. A. Zschokke has been chosen director of the recently established Wine and 

 Fruit Culture School at Neustadt, Bavaria. 



Dr. Adolph Osterwalder has become assistant in the laboratory of plant physiology 

 of the Experiment Station and School for Fruit, Wine, and Garden Culture in 

 Wiidensweil, Switzerland. 



Dr. Roux, of the Pasteur Institute, has been elected a member of the agricultural 

 section of the Paris Academy of Sciences, taking the place left vacant at the death 

 of Aime Girard. 



At a recent meeting held in London to consider questions connected with Cam- 

 bridge University it Avas stated that the Drapers' Company would subscribe $1,000 

 a year for ten years in support of a professor of agriculture. Sir Walter Gilby has 

 subscribed $1,000 a year for the same period to provide for a readership of agriculture. 



The commission which was appointed sometime ago in France to consider the 

 question of colonial botanical gardens and agricultural experiment stations has 

 recommended that a station be established in each of the French colonies and a 

 central station for the distribution of seeds and plants. A decree has been issued 

 organizing such a station at Vincennes, and J. Dybowski has been appointed director. 



Notice has been received that the International Veterinary Congress will be held 

 at Baden, Germany, August 4-14, 1899. The subjects io be discussed include pro- 

 phylactic measures to prevent the spread of cattle diseases by the export of ani- 

 mals, treatment of tuberculosis in domestic animals, use of llesh and milk of animals 

 affected by tuberculosis, and requirements for inspection of meat, cure of foot aud 

 mouth disease and diseases of swine, dissemination of veterinary instruction, prepa- 

 ration of a uniform anatomical nomenclature in veterinary medicine, and cure of 

 rabies. 



The new bacteriological institute of the University of Louvain, of which Pro- 

 fessor Denys is the head, was formally opened in February. A special department 

 of the institute will be devoted to the preparation of therapeutic serums, etc. 



The December number of the Forstlich-naturwissenschaftliche Zcilschrift announces 

 the discontinuation of that journal owing to the removal of the editor, Dr. Carl 

 Freiherr von Tubeuf, from Munich to Berlin, as previously noted (E. S. R., 10, p. 400). 



