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The medical faculty of the University of Munich offers a prize for research on the 

 nutrition of pigeons with chemically pure food stuffs (albumin, fats, carbohydrates, 

 mineral salts, and water). In announcing the subject attention is called to the 

 claim that mice can net be adequately nourished <>n such chemically pure foods. 

 although there is a difference of opinion among investigators upon this point. 



A board of agriculture lias recently been established in the Bahamas, ami a 

 botanical station is to he started in connection with it. The station will he under 

 the supervision of the Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture for the West Indies. 



Through Scit net «re note that Sir Thomas Elliott, for the British Board of Agricul- 

 ture, in a reply to the Association of Chambers of Commerce, who urged the impor- 

 tance of establishing a national school of forestry, stated that through the agency of 

 the commissioners of woods and forests a school of forestry had been established 

 in the Forest of Dean, and that a movement is on foot for securing a suitable area of 

 land in Scotland for the purpose of demonstrating scientific forestry. "The board 

 has taken steps to secure the establishment of at least two lectureships in forestry 

 in England, and some of the leading universities and agricultural colleges have been 

 giving attention to proposals under this head. The agricultural departments of the 

 University College of North Wales, Bangor, and of the Durham College of Science, 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, appeared to offer special advantages as centers of instruction 

 in forestry, and grants in aid of the establishment of schemes of education in the 

 subject will be made by the board to those institutions. The board hopes that the 

 arrangements thus made will result in a considerable improvement of the facilities 

 available in this country for the acquirement of a knowledge of practical forestry." 



Nature gives an account of the opening of the new hall of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society in Vincent Square, Westminster, on July 22. The building includes a library, 

 offices, council chambers, and a lecture room, in addition to the large hall in winch 

 the society will hold its fortnightly exhibitions. It was built to celebrate the cen- 

 tenary of the society, the funds being raised by subscription. The ultimate cost will 

 be about £40,000, and of this amount £26,000 have been subscribed. It is said to be 

 the intention of the society to provide scientific instruction, as well as practical 

 training, in connection with the gardens at Wisley. 



A laboratory for beet sugar manufacture has been opened in connection with the 

 Agricultural High School at Berlin. 



The chair of plant physiology, formerly occupied by P. P. Deherain in the 

 Museum of Natural History, has been changed by official decree to a chair of crypto- 

 gamic botany, and L. Mangin has been appointed its first occupant. The instruction 

 in agronomy is continued by L. Maquenne. 



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