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school, a school farm, and short \\inter courses for farmers. J. Lossing Buck 

 has been in charge of the agricultural work at the station from the outset. 



Necrology. — Professor Herbert W. Conu, widely known as a pioneer worker 

 in dairy bacteriology in tliis country, died at Middletown, Connecticut, April 18. 



Professor Conn was born at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, January 10, 1859, was 

 graduated from Boston University in 1881, and received the Ph. D. degree from 

 Johns Hopkins University in 1884. His long period of service was spent 

 entirely with Wesleyan University, commencing as instructor in biology in 

 1884, as assistant professor from 1886 to 1889, and subsequently as profes.sor 

 of biology. He was also bacteriologist of the Connecticut Storrs Station from 

 1890 to 1896, a member of the Board of Control of the Connecticut State Sta- 

 tion since 1!X)8, director of the Cold Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory from 

 1889 to 1907, and director of the laboratory of the Connecticut State Board of 

 Health since 1905. He was likewise closely associated with the New York 

 Milk Committee and niimerous health organizations and related bodies. 



Professor Conn's work covered a large range of scientific inquiry, but he 

 specialized in the bacteriology of dairy products. He wa* one of the earliest 

 workers in this country on problems connected with certified milk, the use of 

 pasteurized cream and pure bacterial cultures in butter making, and the bac- 

 teriological examination of municipal milk supplies. He was the author of 

 several text books, mostly on bacteriological subjects, of which his Agricul- 

 tural Bacteriology is especially well known. He had also contributed over 

 150 scientific memoirs and other articles, many of these appearing in publica- 

 tions of the Connecticut Storrs Station. He was one of the founders, and for 

 15 years president, of the Society of American Bacteriologists. 



New Journals. — Abstracts of Bacteriology is the title of a new bi-monthly 

 abstract journal published by the Society of American Bacteriologists, with 

 A. Parker Hichens as editor, George H. Smith as associate editor, and a 

 numerous corps of abstract editors and abstractors. The initial number con- 

 tains, in addition to abstracts of current literature and book reviews, a list of 

 the periodicals to be reviewed and a summary of the scientific proceedings of 

 the eighteenth annual meeting of the society, held at New Haven, Connecticut, 

 December 27-29, 1916. 



With the year 1917 Forestry Quarterly, which completed its fourteenth vol- 

 ume in December, 1916, will be amalgamated with the Proceedings of the Society 

 of Am€rica7i Foresters under the title Journal of Forestry. The new magazine 

 is to be published in eight monthly issues, containing approximately as many 

 pages a» the two original publications together. It is announced that the 

 character of the new journal will remain essentially the same as the present 

 publications. 



Veterinary Review is a new quarterly published in London and Edinburgh, 

 with Dr. O. C. Bradley, principal of the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College of 

 Edinburgh, as editor. The initial number contains a brief article by R. G. 

 Linton on Feeding and Economy, and about 95 pages devoted to abstracts of 

 current veterinary literature, book reviews, and an extensive bibliography. 



The Journal of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture, Porto Rico, is 

 being published under the direction of W. V. Tower, director of the Insular 

 Experiment Station, and with John A. Stevenson as editor. The initial number 

 contains A List of the Coccidse of Porto Rico, by T. H. Jones, and History and 

 Cause of the Rind Disease, by J. R. Johnston. 



The Secretary of Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor of Cuba is publishing a 

 monthly periodical known as Agriculture. This publication is to be devoted 

 entirely to agricultural extension articles for the purpose of bringing the 

 farmers into close touch with agricultural progress. 



