900 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



separation of the experiment station work from that of the farm and college. At a 

 recent meeting the chairs of hotany and entomology were consolidated. This con- 

 solidates the work of these two sciences in the station also. As previously noted, 

 live stock and dairying have heen consolidated and placed in charge of C. M. Con- 

 ner. Important work has heen recently done hy the botanist and entomologist in 

 investigations of fungus diseases of rice. Preparations are being made to experi- 

 ment on a more elaborate scale with grasses and legumes. Experiments have also 

 been inaugurated with hop culture. A short bulletin entitled "Suggestions to 

 auxiliary clubs" has been issued to induce cooperation of farmers' clubs with the 

 station. Farmers' institutes will be held, where desired, during the summer and 

 made more strictly agricultural than hitherto. 



Wyoming University and Station. — The State legislature has provided a ^ mill 

 tax for four years, the proceeds of which are to be used in the construction of a new 

 building at the university. It is probable that a science hall will be built, costing 

 about $22,000, and that work on it will be begun the coming season. This will 

 undoubtedly greatly benefit the station by giving increased facilities for scientific 

 work. The following new members have been appointed on the board of trustees: 

 S. Conaut Parks, of Lander, and J. A. Riner, of Cheyenne, vice James A. McAvoy 

 and J. O. Churchill, whose terms of office have expired. 



Personal Mention. —Arthur Devarda, adjunct to the agricultural-chemical exper- 

 iment station at Vienna, has been transferred to a similar position in the station at 

 Gorz. He will be succeeded by Adolf Halla, former assistant. 



Prof. Dr. R. von Wettstein, who succeeds the late Dr. A. von Kerner as professor 

 of botany and director of the gardens and museum of the University of Vienna, 

 assumed his new duties April 1. 



Prof. Emerich Meissl, director of the agricultural-chemical experiment station at 

 Vienna, has been appointed counselor ("Ministerialraf) to the German agricultural 

 ministry. Dr. F. W. Dafert, director of the agricultural institute at Campinas, 

 Brazil, has been appointed director of the station in his stead, and the place of the 

 latter has been filled by Dr. Gustav Dutra. 



The agricultural experiment station at Cothen, Germany, which was founded in 

 1864, has been discontinued, owing to the death of the director, Dr. F. Heidepriem. 



Dr. Wilhelm Schimper, formerly associate professor of botany at the University 

 of Bonn, has been appointed to a chair in the University of Basel. 



The British Government has established a botanic garden and experiment station 

 in Uganda, Northeast Africa, under the direction of Alex. White. 



J. H. Holland has been appointed director of the botanic gardens in Old Calabar, 

 Western Africa. 



Miscellaneous. — According to The Gardeners 1 Chronicle, it has been decided to 

 hold an arboricultural and pomological conference in connection with the horticul- 

 tural section of the Paris Exposition. Preliminary papers will be accepted dealing 

 with the following subjects: Fruit farms, cultural and economic principles, choice 

 of suitable varieties and their use, fruit planting by roadsides, harvesting and pres- 

 ervation of fruit, packing fruit, cider trees and fruits — their cultivation and uses, 

 atmospheric agencies — their influence on forced fruit trees and vines, vegetable 

 physiology as regards fructification, practice of grafting and pruning, tariffs and 

 conditions of transport for trees and fruits, insects, diseases, remedies, manures and 

 fertilizers, the propagation of varieties of fruit for colonial cultivation, tuition in 

 fruit culture, garden schools, public instruction, congresses, etc. The details of the 

 organization will be under the direction of a committee, of which Charles Baltet 

 will be chairman. 



A semimonthly journal, La Industria A:i<carera, devoted to the cane-sugar industry 

 in all of its branches, and intended for circulation in all the Spanish-American 

 countries which produce sugar, has recently been started by the Sugar Industry 

 Company, 123 Liberty street, New York City. 



