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J. D. Towar, formerly of the Michigan College and station, has returned from 

 South Australia, where since 1902 he has occupied the position of principal of the 

 Roseworthy Agricultural College and professor of agriculture in that institution. 



Dr. Robert Ostertag, a member of the faculty of the veterinary high school at 

 Berlin, and the foremost authority on meat Inspection in Germany, recently made a 

 tour of this country for the purpose of becoming more thoroughly acquainted with the 

 conditions which prevail here with regard to veterinary medicine and animal industry. 

 Doctor Ostertag visited many of the larger abattoirs in our chief cities, inspected a 

 number of our veterinary schools, stock farms, and dairy institutions. A very favor- 

 able impression was formed by Doctor Ostertag regarding the work of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry in eradicating sheep scab and dipping cattle for the destruction of 

 ticks. Many of our veterinary schools were considered by him as still defective 

 in their curricula, but two especially i ( tornell and Pennsylvania) were referred to as 

 furnishing high grade and satisfactory instruction in all respects. Doctor Ostertag con- 

 sidered that some of our dairy farms were equal or superior with respect to general 

 management, sanitary conditions, etc., to any similar institutions in the world. The 

 system of meat inspection instituted and maintained by the Bureau of Animal Indus- 

 try was considered as exceedingly effective and satisfactory. While at Ames, Iowa, 

 Doctor Ostertag investigated the course in animal husbandry offered at that institu- 

 tion, and was so well impressed with its efficiency that he has decided to establish a 

 course as nearly like it as possible in the veterinary high school at Berlin. 



The Very Rev. Samuel Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester, England, and widely 

 known as a writer on roses, died at his home on August 24, in his 85th year. He 

 was one of the originators of the National Rose Society of England, and has been its 

 president since the establishment of that society in 1858. He is best known perhaps 

 to horticulturists through his Book About Roses, How to Grow and Show Them, and 

 his book published in 1899, entitled Our Gardens. The Book About Roses has gone 

 through 19 editions. 



B. M. Everhart, well known for his work in systematic mycology, died at his home 

 in Westchester, Pa., September 22, 1904, in his 87th year. 



Dr. F. Nobbe, since 1868 professor in the Forestry School and director of the 

 Experiment Station for Plant Physiology in Tharand, retired from active duties with 

 the beginning of October. 



Earnest Shearer has been appointed lecturer on agriculture at the Pusa Imperial 

 College, Bengal, India. References have previously been made to the establishment 

 of this model agricultural college for India, with a farm of 1,300 acres. 



We learn from Science that Alexander Lauder, senior demonstrator in chemistry 

 in the University College of North Wales, Bangor, has been appointed lecturer in 

 agricultural chemistry in the Edinburgh and East Scotland College of Agriculture. 



A chair of agricultural mechanics has been established at the University of < mttin- 

 gen, and Dr. Ludwig Prandtl has been appointed to the chair. 



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