1140 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



"\V. C. Welborn, formerly of the Mississippi Agricultural and !Meehanieal College, 

 has gone to the Philippine^:, where lie will be connected with the Bureau of 

 Agriculture. 



T. P. A. Cockerell, of the Normal University, at East Las Vegas, N. Mex., and con- 

 sulting entomologist of the Arizona Station, has accepted a position in Colorado 

 College, at Colorado Springs. 



Harvard University hasestaljlished a course in forestry, and R. T. Fisher has 1)een 

 appointed instructor in this suliject. 



We note from Scienre that L. Daniel has been elected to a newly established chair 

 of agricultural l)otany at the University of Rennes. 



The American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers held its annual meeting 

 at Toronto June 2.3-20. The t>fficers elected for the coming year were: President, 

 B. W. Kilgore, of North Carolina; vice-president, E. E. Kaufman, of North Dakota; 

 secretary, G. C. Creelman, of Ontario; executive committee, the president, secretary, 

 and George McKerrow of Wisconsin, H. C. Easterly of Illinois, and J. C. Hardy 

 of Mississippi. The meeting next year will be held at St. Louis. 



The Seventh Annual Convention of the National Association nf State Dairy and 

 Food Departments Avas heM at St. Paul July 21-24. The programme was a long one 

 and included papers and discussions on food legislation, food standards, manufacture 

 and i)reservation of foods, anti.septics, labeling, etc. 



A bill has passed the State legislature of ^Massachusetts jiroviding for the manufac- 

 ture of vaccine lymph for free distribution in the State and placing this imder the 

 control of the State board of health. The lymph will be manufactured at the Bussey 

 Insfitute. A bill ai>proi)riating $250,000 for combating the gypsy moth has been 

 rejected. 



We note from A a/ *'/•<' that the annual report ni the Royal Agricultural Society, 

 adopted at the meeting held ^lay 22, states that the council of the society has decided 

 to organize an agricultural e<lucation exhibition as a new feature of its annual show, 

 with a view to bringing before the public the general characteristics of the teaching 

 now provided at agricultural colleges, and of drawing attention to the society's own 

 ehare in this work as a national examining body. 



The board of agricultural studies of the University of Cambridge reports that during 

 the past year 169 students have received instruction in agricultural science. The 

 income of the department is about §1S,000. The need of a j)ermanent building to 

 accommodate the various branches of this work is becoming apparent and the matter 

 is receiving the consideration of the board. 



It is reported that the Viceroy of India will devote the £20,000 donated by Henry 

 Phipps to the establishment of a laboratory for agricultural research, to be known as 

 the Phipps Laboratory, and to be situated at Dehra Dun, and to a second Pasteur 

 institute in the south of India. The donation will be devoted to providing the build- 

 ings. The government will contribute toward the maintenance of the agricultural 

 laboratory and bear the whole expense in the case of the Pasteur institute. 



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