932 EXPEKIMENT STATION EECORD. 



H. L. Bolley, botanist of the North Dakota College and Station, has been appointed 

 agricultural explorer of the Bureau of Plant Industry, the appointment to take effect 

 June 1, 1903. He will visit different countries of Europe, particularly Russia, for the 

 purpose of securing seeds of desirable varieties of flax. One of the principal objects 

 will be to obtain varieties resistant to the flax wilt, due to a species of Fusarium, 

 which disease has been under investigation by Professor Bolley for a number of 

 years. 



J. E. Stewart, laboratory assistant in the pathological division of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, leaves May 1 to accept a position with the National Vaccine 

 Company. 



H. E. Williams has beeia promoted to assistant chief of the "Weather Bureau, D. J. 

 Carroll to chief clerk, and E. B. Calvert to chief of division, the appointments to 

 take effect July 1. 



G. K. Holmes, statistical expert of the Division of Statistics, has been made chief 

 of the Division of Foreign Markets. 



Miscellaneous. — The North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College an- 

 nounces a summer school for teachers, to oi^en July 1 and close July 31. Six courses 

 of study are announced, as follows: (1) Elementary agriculture, ( 2) manual training, 

 (3) nature study, (4) public school branches and kindergarten work, (5) literary 

 subjects, and (6) Sunday-school instruction. 



Andrew Carnegie has given §600,000 toward the endowment of the Tuskegee 

 Normal and Industrial Institute. 



The Agricultural Experimenters' League has recently been organized in New York 

 "for the promotion of cooperative experiments in the various departments of farm 

 husbandry; for the promotion of intercourse among those studying farm problems; 

 for the advancement of agricultural education; for the collection and dissemination 

 of data relating to country life, and for the purpose of supporting legislation favor- 

 able to the promotion of these objects." The active president of the league is James 

 E. Rice, of Yorktown, N. Y., and the secretary, John Craig, of Cornell University. 



A general index to the reports and bulletins of the Canada Experimental Farms 

 published from 1887 to 1901 has recently been issued. The index is detailed and 

 complete, and will be very useful in making readily accessible the results of the 

 extended work which has been done on varieties of field crops, fruits, and vegetables, 

 and along other lines. 



Floral Life is the name of a new monthly magazine published in Philadelphia, 

 and devoted to nature, horticulture, floriculture, and ornamental gardening. The 

 magazine is in reality a continuation of Meehanh MonOihj, which has been consider- 

 ably enlarged and greatly improved in appearance by the use of many half-tone 

 reproductions. 



T. H. Schloesing, jr., has been elected a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences 

 in the section of agriculture, in the place of the late P. P. Deherain. 



The death of Prof. Augusto Napoleone Berlese, w hich took place at Milan, Janu- 

 ary 26, 1903, is noted in Staz. Sper. Agr. Ital., 36 {1903), No. 1, p. 33. Professor 

 Berlese was born in October, 1864, and received his doctor's degree from the faculty 

 of science in 1885. His principal works, a list of which is given, have been con- 

 ducted along the lines of vegetable pathology. 



o 



