NOTES, 



Mississippi Station. — S. M. Tracy, director, and H. E. Weed, entomologist, have 

 resigned tbeir positions, to take effect at the close of the present college year. 



Nkw Yoimv State Station. — F. H. Hall, for several years connected with the 

 Office of Experiment Stations, has resigned to accept the position of editor and ■ 

 librarian at this station. 



New York Cornkll University and Station. — The Xew York State legisla- 

 ture has appropriated $25,000 to the College of Agriculture for experimental and 

 university extension work. The following additions to the station staff have been 

 made: J. L. Stone has been appointed assistant agriculturist; H. B. Cannon, chief 

 clerk; G. A. Smith, assistant in dairying; J. W. Spencer and G. T. Powell, in charge 

 of work of instruction; C. Hunn, assistant horiculturist; A. L. Kneisley, assistant 

 chemist; and B. M. Duggar, assistant botanist. 



Washington* Station. — The substation at T'uyallup will he closed temporarily at 

 the end of this fiscal year. 



Wyoming Station. — The State legislature at its last session made no appropria- 

 tion for the substations. The equipment of the Wheatland Substation will be re- 

 moved to the main station at Laramie. 



Public Laboratory and Experiment Station in Johannesburg, South 

 African Republic. — An account in a recent number of Chemiler Zcitnng, ^l (1S97), 

 Xo. 14, p. l'~2), by J. Loevy gives a report for 1896 for this institution, which has been 

 in operation since April, 1891. The work of the year included analyses of miner- 

 alogical specimens, explosives, potassium cyanid, bat guano, water, milk, butter, 

 distilled liquors, coffee, and drugs. The metallurgical experiment station conducted 

 a large number of experiments, principally on the extraction of gold with i)0ta88ium 

 cyanid. 



Personal Mention. — Dr. Fisher von Waldheim succeeds the late Dr. Batalin as 

 Director of the Imjierial Botanic Garden at St. Petersburg. 



Gaston Bonnier has been elected a member of the Botanical Section of the Academy 



of Sciences of the Institute of France. 



i Robert Hogg, one of the leading horticulturists of England, died March U, in his 



\79th year. 



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