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growing, by C. B. Smith, of this Office; (8) principles of stock feeding, by W. J. 

 Spillman, of the Bureau of Plant Industry; (9) horse husbandry; (10) swine ami 

 sheep husbandry, by <i. M. Rommel, of the Bureau of Animal Industry; (11) beef 

 production, by E. V. Wilcox, of this Office; ( 12) veterinary science, by G. II. Hart, 

 of the Bureau of Animal Industry; (13) the dairy herd and its care, by II. E. 

 Alvord, of the Dairy Division, and (14) milk, butter, and cheese, by C. B. Lane, of 

 the same division. 



A New Agricultural School. — Oread is the name of a school for girls established at 

 Worcester, Mass., in 1S4S, which has recently Keen moved to the Filston Farm, near 

 Baltimore, Md. The institution has been reorganized and now includes a domestic 

 science department for girls and women and a natural science department, including 

 agriculture, industrial arts, and commerce, for boys and men. The subjects of instruc- 

 tion included under agriculture comprise drainage and irrigation, soils, crops, farm 

 buildings and the home, marketing and accounts, horticulture, forestry, animal 

 industry, dairying, poultry and bees, and veterinary science. The school has been 

 endowed by Henry D. Perkey, who is also its president. 



Agriculture at the British Association Meeting. — At the meeting this year of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science there was for the first time in 

 the history of the association a subsection devoted to agriculture, which was presided 

 over by Dr. W. Somerville. The preliminary announcement of the meeting con- 

 tained the following list of papers which had been promised: The Probable Error of 

 Agricultural Field Experiments, an Analysis of the Soil by Means of the Plant, 

 A. D. Hall, of the Rothamsted Station; The Influence of Sulphate as Manure upon the 

 Yield and Feeding Value of Crops, and the Determination of the Availability of 

 Insoluble Phosphate in Manures, T. S. Dymond; The Improvement of Wheats and 

 Mendel's Laws, R. H. Biffen; The Clover Mystery— a Probable Solution of it, R. H. 

 Elliot; Improvement of Clay Pastures through the Agency of Clovers, T. H. Mid- 

 dleton; and Chemical Composition of Root Crops, T. B.Wood and R. A. Berry. 



New Society in France for Alimentary Hygiene and Nutrition of Man. — Recognizing 

 the importance of studies on food and nutrition, a new scientific society has just been 

 formed in France, which takes the name of The Society of Alimentary Hygiene and 

 the Rational Nutrition of Man. The objects of this organization are the study and 

 popularization of the best methods of scientific and economic nutrition of man in all 

 conditions of life and of all ages, as well as the determination of the laws of hygiene 

 in relation to nutrition and their social application. The society proposes to carry 

 on studies in France and elsewhere, to found experiment stations and special labo- 

 ratories, to offer prizes and other subsidies for the encouragement of work, to puhlish 

 monographs and other technical works, to organize exhihitions and congresses, and 

 to give scientific courses and lectures on its work and questions related to nutrition. 



This organization was founded at the instigation of Dr. Ricard, senator from the 

 Cote d'Or. The list of active members is limited to fifty; twenty associate members, 

 French and foreign; one hundred corresponding members, and fifteen honorary 

 members. It numbers among its founders some of the most representative men 

 interested in physiological, hygienic, and medical studies. 



This society is made up of five sections, namely, (1) Biological physics, (2) Physi- 

 ology and biological chemistry, (3) Rational nutrition, (4) Chemical analysis of 

 foods, and (5) Statistics of nutrition, including production, consumption of food, etc. 

 Each section has a president and one or more vice presidents, Prof. L. Grandeau 

 being president of the section of rational nutrition, and Prof. A. Gautier president of 

 the section of physiology and biological chemistry. The president of the society is 

 Dr. Ricard. 



The founders of the society state that in determining upon its scope, methods, and 

 objects they were very largely influenced by the nutrition investigations carried on 

 in the United States, especially those of the Office of Experiment Stations, and, as 



