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Iowa College and Statiox. — Janus \Y. Wilson lias resigned his position as 

 assistant in animal husbandry in the college and station to become private secretary 

 to the Secretary of Agriculture; and John A. Craig, formerly of the Wisconsin 

 Station, has been elected to till the vacancy. 



Missouri College and Station. — This college and station sustained a severe 

 loss in the destruction by fire on November 8, 1897, of the residence occupied by 

 II. .1. Waters, dean of the college and director of the station. All the experimental 

 records were saved. The insurance of $5,000 practically covers the loss. 



New York Cornell Station. — G. N. Lauman has been appointed assistant 

 horticulturist, of the station. 



Vermont College and Station. — Hon. Crosby Miller, for 20 years trustee of the 

 State Agricultural College and for 11 years member of the board of control of the 

 station, died at Pomfret, Vermont, on November 22, 1897. 



American Forestry Association. — The first copy of the new organ of the 

 Association, The Forester, formerly published by .John Gifford, has been received. 

 The Association has terminated its arrangement with the Pennsylvania Forestry 

 Association by which the monthly publication of the latter, Forest Leaves, was 

 recognized as the organ of the Association. The new journal "will contain not 

 only popular articles and news of the forestry movement, and the like, but also 

 technical articles of use to owners of woodlands, parks, grounds, and consumers of 

 wood material.'' The number contains iu addition to editorial and news items an 

 account of the sixteenth annual meeting of the Association, held at Washington, 

 1). ('., December 8, 1897. This includes the address of the president of tbe Associa- 

 tion; the report of the executive committee on Federal legislation, administrative 

 action, forestry in Pennsylvania, tariff legislation, association meetings, publica- 

 tions, increase of membership, etc. ; and the resolutions adopted. The officers for 

 the ensuing year are: Francis H. Appleton, Hoston, Mass., president; Sir H. G. Joly 

 de Lotliiniere, Quebec, Canada, first vice-president; George ('. McLanahan, vice- 

 president for the District of Columbia; Frederick H. Newell, Washington, D. C, 

 corresponding secretary; George P. Whittlesey, Washington, D. C, recording sec- 

 retary and treasurer; and B. E. Fernow, F. V. Coville, Edward A. Bowers, D. M. 

 Kionlan, Gilford Pinehot, and Charles C. Binney, executive committee. 



A Standing Commission for Agricultural Experimentation in Hungary. — 

 The Hungarian Minister of Agriculture has created a. permanent commission for 

 agricultural experimentation, in which the different branches of agriculture a r e 

 represented by practical men. This commission will outline a plan for the general 

 work in the interest of agriculture, exercise a control over the same, and pass upon 

 the subjects for special investigation. 



Personal Mention. — J. B. Carruthers has been commissioned by the Planters' 

 Association to study plant diseases in Ceylon. 



J. (i. Luchnian, assistant to the late Baron von Mueller, has been appointed his 

 successor and is now in charge of the National Herbarium at Melbourne, Australia. 



Prof. A. Stutzer, director of the agricultural experiment station at Bonn, has been 

 elected professor of agricultural chemistry and agricultural bacteriology at the Uni- 

 versity of Breslau. He will be accompanied by his present assistant, Dr. Hartle'i. 



Dr. Karl Miiller, director of the agricultural experiment station at Hildesheim, 

 died October 24, 1897, at the age of 50 years. 

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