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inside view of the work at Rothamsted and an unusually intimate knowledge of the 

 men. With reference to their joint work the writer -ays: 



The government of the Federated Malay States has, according to a note in Nature, 

 decided to establish an agricultural departmenl in Malay, and lias appointed Mr. J. 

 B.' Carruthers, the government mycologist and assistant directorof the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens of Ceylon, to be director of agriculture and government botanist. "The 

 Federated Malay States have an area (if more than L'.'i.ODO square miles, and the 

 agricultural potentialities are very promising. Large areas are being planted with 

 rubber plants, and sugar and cocoanuts are extensively cultivated. There are two 

 botanic gardens and a rubber experiment station in the Malay States, and all three 

 are, we understand, to be administered by the new department." 



The American. Association of Farmers' Institute Workers held its ninth annual 

 meeting in the Agricultural Building on the World's Fair Grounds, St. Louis, < >ctober 

 18-20. About 100 members, representing 30 states and provinces in the Tinted States 

 and Canada, were present, and the meeting was considered one of the most success- 

 ful and helpful ever held. President J. C. Hardy, of Mississippi, was elected presi- 

 dent of the association, and G. C. Creelman, of Guelph, Canada, was elected secre- 

 tary. It was decided to hold the meeting next year at Baton Rouge, La. 



It is announced in Nature that Dr. Robert Koch has retired from the post of director 

 of the Institute for Infectious Diseases, at Berlin, owing to the increasing demands 

 w T hich other bacteriological work make upon his time and energies. Prof. Koch will 

 proceed to German East Africa in order to continue those studies of tropical and 

 other diseases which he had not completed during his recent visit to Rhodesia. In 

 particular he will continue to investigate the part played by ticks in conveying the 

 infection of various cattle diseases. 



Thomas J. Dwyer died at his home in Cornwall, X. Y., October 3, from the effects 

 of a strain which resulted in aneurism of the right artery. He was 49 years old. He 

 was the author of a book entitled Guide to Hardy Fruits and Ornamentals, published 

 in 1903, of which the second edition has already been printed. 



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