724 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



planters. A laboratory and dwelling to cost about $16,000 are building. The lines 

 of work to be undertaken include the investigation of the food requirements and 

 habits of growth of tropical cultivated plants, study of insect pests and fungus dis- 

 eases and methods of eradicating them, analysis of soils and fertilizers, examination 

 of animal and vegetable iiroducts intended for export or home consumption, and a 

 study of the flora and fauna of German East Africa. 



We note from Science that Sir William Macdonald, of Montreal, has donated a 

 further sum of $4,500 to the Macdonald Institute at the Ontario Agricultural College, 

 Guelph, to complete the furnishing. This makes a total of $175,000 given by Sir 

 William to this institute. 



C. Martin, director of the dairy school at MamiroUe, France, has been retired at 

 his own request and is succeeded by M. Houdet. 



The Biochemisches Centralblatt, an abstract journal for biochemistry, covering the 

 field bordering on medicine and chemistry, is one of the latest of the new scientific 

 serials. Judging from the numbers issued thus far, it will review papers on the phy- 

 siology of human nutrition, hygiene, sanitation, milk and water supply, ferments, 

 toxins, parasites, immunization, etc. It will be issued semimonthly. 



In a statement of the needs of the University of Oxford, circulated by the vice- 

 chancellor, better endowment was asked, among other things, for the Sibthorpian 

 professorship of rural economy (now suspended). 



A laboratory has been opened in the gardens of the Royal Botanic Society at 

 Regent's Park, London, in which classes for instruction in botany and "horticultural 

 chemistry" are held three days a week. The laboratory has been erected and 

 equipped under the auspices of the technical education board. 



A committee has been formed in Germany to provide for the erection of a memo- 

 rial at Munich to Prof. Max. von Pettenkofer, in recognition of his important con- 

 tributions to sanitation and hygiene. 



The German Government has appropriated $15,000 for research for the study of the 

 relation between tuberculosis in man and cattle. 



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