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Pexxsylvaxia College and Station. — C. A. Browne, jr., first assistant chemist, 

 lias resigned to accept a position at the Louisiana Sugar Station. It is expected that 

 liis time will be quite largely occupied in the chemical investigatif;>n of problems 

 connected with the manufacture of sugar from cane. C. W. Norris, assistant 

 chemist, has resigned to accept a position with a fertilizer firm in Philadelphia. 

 The foundation has been completed for an assembly hall, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Chas. M. Schwab. The original amount of the gift has been increased to $140,000. 

 Tlie building will be a handsome structure of Roman brick with light terra-cotta 

 trimmings, and will serve as a chapel and general assembly hall. Plans are being 

 drawn for the new Carnegie library, for which §100,000 was donated to the college 

 last commencement. Some minor alterations are being made in the respiration 

 calorimeter, which were suggested by the experience with the apparatus last winter. 

 An electric motor will be substituted for the gasoline one for operating the pumps, the 

 gasoline engine not having been found suflSciently regular and reliable in its work 

 for such delicate experiments. It is planned to carry on a series of experiments 

 with the respiration calorimeter the coming winter, using steers as subjects. 



Wiscoxsix College Statiox. — John C. Brown has been appointed instructor in 

 agricultural chemistry in the college and assistant chemist of the station. 



IT. S. Depart.mext of Agriculture. — The total number of officers and employees 

 of different grades in the Department has more than doubled in the last ten years. 

 The number on July 1, 1893, was 1,870, and on July 1, 1902, 3,789, showing an 

 increase of 1,919. The number of scientific workers and their assistants in the 

 Department (including the Weather Bureau observers and meat inspectors) was 

 2,081 on July first last, and the number of executive officers and administrative 

 assistants 1,708, making the total number of employees 3,789. 



The Bureau of Plant Industry has consti'ucted a liarn at the Arlington Experimental 

 Farm. The building is of brick, 40 by 100 ft. and two stories high, Avith a large attic 

 or loft. It contains rooms for the storage of crops, seeds and machinery, a root cellar, 

 stalls for a number of horses, a photographic laboratory, and office rooms. Such a 

 structure has been much needed and will greatly facilitate the Department's work on 

 this farm. The cost was about $4,000. 



A seed building 60 by 100 ft., and two stories high has just been completed which 

 will provide offices and workrooms for the seed and plant introduction, storage for 

 the special seeds, paint and carpenter shops for the Bureau of Plant Industry, etc. 

 This building was jirovided fur in the last appropriation act, which allowed the use 

 of $10,000 out of the fund for seeds for the erection of a warehouse for the seed handled 

 by the Department. 



Several new greenhouses and a large potting shed have been erected, and a new 

 central heating plant for the greenhouses and offices in the vicinity has been installed. 

 This plant will take the place of 13 separate heaters, which were put in from time 

 to time as the greenhouses were extended. 



^Iiscellaxeous. — The Seventh International Congress of Agriculture will convene 

 in Rome in the spring of 1903. The exact dates will be given out later with the pro- 

 gramme. The congress will be divided into the following sections: Rural economy, 

 agricultui-al education, agronomy, animal husbandry, agricultural engineering, special 

 crops and their corresponding industries, vegetable pathology, forestry, pisciculture, 

 and viticulture and enology. To become a member of the congress it is necessary 

 to make application to the Commission of Organization, Via Poll 53, Rome, before 

 January 31, 1903, and to remit a membership fee of 20 francs. It is also desired that 

 applit'ants state what particular section of the congress they wish to attend. Persons 

 desiring to present papers are requested to send them to the Commission of Organ- 

 ization before December 15, 1902. The languages to be used at the congress are 



