NOTES, 



Connecticut Storks Station. — "William J. Karslake, Ph. D., formerly lectvTrer 

 on chemistry in Dalhousie University, Halifax, has been appoiuted assistant chemist 

 of the station, to take eifect September 15. 



Louisiana College and Stations — T. D. Boyd has been elected president of 

 the college, rice J. W. Nicholson, resigned. J. G. Lee, assistant director of the North 

 Louisiana Station, has resigned to become State commissioner of agriculture, and 

 D. C. Sutton has been appointed in his stead. E. B. Fitts, farm manager and tobac- 

 conist at tiio State Station, is succeeded by .Tames Clayton. R. E. Blouiu, of the 

 State Station, has been transferred to the Sugar Station at New Orleans, and .J. D. 

 Clark has been appointed to succeed him. 



Mississippi College and Station.— Dr. Tait Butler has resigned his position as 

 veterinarian, and is succeeded by Dr. J. S. Roberts. 



Montana Station. — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. D., has been appointed l)iologist of the 

 station. 



Texas College and Station. — D. Adriance has been compelled by poor health 

 to resign his position as associate chemist in the college .and station. 



Papers uefore the Society for the Promotion oe Agricultural Science, 

 August 21-22, 1896. — The following papers were read belore the Society for the Pro- 

 motion of Agricultural Science at its seventeenth annual meeting held at Buffalo, 

 New York, August 21 and 22, 1896 : " The relation of science to agriculture," l)y W. R. 

 Lazeuby ; '• On A^arieties of timothy and red clover " and " Pollen-distributing insects 

 observed on flowers of timothy and red clover," by A. D. Hopkins; •' The influence 

 of animal experimentation upon agriculture," by V. A. Moore ; " Steer-feeding exper- 

 iments at the Kansas Experiment Station," by C. C. George-soii; ''A biographical 

 sketch of Dr. C. V. Riley," by L. O. Howard; "White muscardine (Sporolrichum 

 glohulifennn) of the chinch bug economically considered," by B. M. Duggar; "An 

 antitoxic serum for hog cholera and swine plague. The production of immunity to 

 hog cholera by means of the blood serum of immune animals," by E. A. de Schweinitz ; 

 " The relation of the time of seeding and the period of development to the develop- 

 ment of rusts and smuts in oats," and " Some further experiments on potato scab," 

 by H. L. Bolley; "Protective inoculation against anthrax," by F. D. Chester; 

 "Forcing cauliflower with lettuce and cucumbers," by H. C. Irish; "New experi- 

 ments with fungicides for smuts of wheat and oats," by W. A. Kellerman; "A 

 biographical sketch of Prof. C. L. Ingersoll," by C. E. Bessey ; " Electro-horticulture: 

 range of incandescent lamps," by F. W. Rane; "Notes on grasses collected l)etween 

 Jefferson, Iowa, and Denver, Colorado," by L. H. Pammel and F. L. Scribner. 



Personal Mention. — Dr. A. Zimmermanu, of the University of Berlin, has been 

 appointed botanist of the newly founded division of coffee culture in the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens at Buitenzorg. 



The new directeur dc I'agriculture of France, M. Yastilli^re, was for a time a 

 farmer in North Carolina, has an American wife, and is fond of this country. 

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