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a recognition of this, Professor At water, chief of the nutrition investigations, was 

 made an associate member. 



The society publishes a journal entitled " Reme de la Societe Scientifique d'Hygiene 

 alimentaireet de I' Alimentation rationelle de I'/tomme," which contains original articles 

 and abstracts of current literature relating to the subjects in which the society is 

 interested. Its foundation may be regarded as an illustration of the importance 

 which the study of nutrition is assuming at the present time. 



International Congress of Agricultural Mechanics. — It is proposed to hold an Inter- 

 national Congress of Agricultural Mechanics at the Universal Exposition of Liege in 

 1905, under the patronage of the Belgian Government. The organization has, how- 

 ever, not yet been perfected nor the programme completed. A. Lonay, director of the 

 provincial school of agricultural mechanics at Mons, is in charge of the preliminary 

 arrangements. Among the topics which have been suggested for the programme are 

 instruction in agricultural mechanics, testing stations for agricultural machinery, 

 exhibition and tests of machinery, application of electricity, the traction automo- 

 bile, and the establishment of a review of agricultural mechanics. 



Personal Mention. — Alfred II. Allen, widely known for his treatise on Commercial 

 Organic Analysis, a work in eight volumes, and the author of many papers on applied 

 chemistry and food adulteration, died at Sheffield, England, July 14, at the age of 

 sixty years. 



The death is reported of Dr. Gustav Hempel, professor of agriculture at Vienna. 



At the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at 

 Cambridge, August 17-24, and the International Physiological Congress at Brussels, 

 August 29 to September 3, W. O. Atwater, in charge of the nutrition investigations 

 of this Office, delivered addresses on the studies in the nutrition of man which are 

 being carried on in this country. 



Miscellaneous. — The committee authorized by the Texas legislature to pay a reward 

 of So0,000 to the discoverer of a method for the extermination of the cotton-boll 

 weevil has decided that no one has earned this reward. 



The report of the Mosely Educational Commission, as given by Dr. Henry E. Arm- 

 strong inScience for August 5, while it expresses a high appreciation of the work being 

 done for agriculture in this country by investigation and by the various agencies for the 

 dissemination of information, contains statements which, doubtless unintentionally, 

 fail to give full credit to the character of the work the experiment stations are doing. 

 It says: "Much research work is also done in the State experiment stations; in the 

 main, however, these serve to bring under the notice of farmers the importance 

 of science to agriculture by demonstrating the value of methods of cultivation, 

 manures, etc." 



In commenting upon the pamphlet recently issued describing the collective exhibit 

 of the colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts and the experiment stations at St. 

 Louis, Science says: "'It is probably the most complete and comprehensive display 

 of its kind that has ever been attempted, and is believed to furnish an instructive 

 exposition of a phase of educational and scientific effort which is rapidly extending 

 and is already exerting a potential influence in developing the industries and 

 resources of the country. It is safe to say that in no special field of education ami 

 research has there been greater progress during the past decade than along the agri- 

 cultural, industrial, and technological lines represented by the land-grant colleges 

 and experiment stations." 



We learn from Le Jardin that a school of horticulture for women will be estab- 

 lished at Cassel, Germany, this fall. In addition to the course in horticulture there 

 will be courses in arboriculture, pomology, domestic economy, dairying, and poultry 

 management. The school will be modeled after the best institutions of its kind, and 

 supplied with modern equipment. It will not only teach the essentials of horticulture, 

 but is designed also to supply professional gardeners. 



