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of l)iological experiment stations for studying evolution and other problems, an 

 antarctic exj^edition, and an investigation of subterranean temperatures. The funds 

 required for all these proposed lines of research would be far in excess of those at 

 the disposal of the institution, and attention will therefore be concentrated upon 

 the selection of certain problems which appear to require immediate assistance. 



National Farm School at Doylestown.— The bill relating to this school as 

 finally passed by the Pennsylvania legislature and signed by the governor carried 

 an api)ropriation of $10,000 for the biennial period instead of 815,000 as previously 

 announced. The post-office address of this school is Farm School, Bucks County, Pa. 



American Chemical Society. — The Society will hold its twenty-eighth general 

 meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, June 29 and 30, 1903. In the announcement of the 

 meeting the attention of those who will present papers is called to the desirability 

 in most cases of a brief, clear presentation of results rather than technical details 

 which, though very suitable in jniblislied papers, are generally out of place in meet- 

 ings of this kind in which the time availalile for the presentation of jiapers is usually 

 limited. 



MiscELLANEors. — The legislature of Hawaii at its recent regular session provided 

 for a reorganization of the office of the commissioner of agriculture by placing the 

 duties of that office under the control of a nonsalaried board of five commissioners. 

 The new law defines the duties of the board and provides for the enforcement of 

 its regulations. Under the new arrangement jiarticular attention of the board is 

 given to forestry, entomology, and inspection of i^lants, fruits, etc., to prevent the 

 admission of injurious fungi and insects. For this work paid superintendents and 

 assistants are provided. For the development of general agriculture, cooperation 

 with the experiment station established by this Department is to be sotight, and 

 such an arrangement can hardly fail to be of benefit to the station as well as to the 

 islands. 



The Connecticut Agricultural College announces a summer school for teachers and 

 others in nature and country life, to be held at Storrs, Conn., from July 6 to 28. 

 The work will consist of lectures and field and laboratory studies. The subjects 

 offered for instruction include birds, insects, geology, botany, landscape gardening, 

 forestry, flower growing, soils, farm crops, fruits, vegetable growing, farm animals, 

 stock feeding, milk jn-oduction, jioultry. natural science, and the pedagogy of nature 

 study. 



The first edition of El Cnfelal, a monthly review devoted exclusively to the coffee 

 industry in all its l)ranches, appeared April 1. It is a journal of about 20 pages and 

 is i^ublished in Spanish at the Produce Exchange Building, New York, in the 

 interests of coffee producers of the Latin-American countries. 



The first number of a new veterinary i)eriodical entitled FortschrUte der Veieriniir- 

 Hygiene was issued in April of the present year. The ground which will be covered 

 by this periodical includes the whole field of veterinary hygiene, and the periodical 

 will include original articles and abstracts. 



Dr. Michael Woronin, the well-known Russian botanist, died in St. Petersburg 

 March 5, 1903, in his sixty-fifth year. 



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