420 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Miscellaneous. — Announcement is made of a cooperative study of the peony by the 

 horticultural department of Cornell University and the American Peony Society. 

 A study will be made of all the varieties of peonies that it is possible to secure at the 

 present time. The study will extend over a sufficient period of years to enable the 

 investigators to cover the nomenclature, botany, and culture of this flower. 



We learn from Science that Henry S. Graves, director of the Yale School of Forestry, 

 lias been commissioned by the Bureau of Forestry to undertake inspection work in 

 the Philippines, and will also undertake commissions in India for the Forestry 

 Bureau in the Philippines. He left New York December 3, and will return early in 

 May. During the winter his courses will be conducted by Dr. Bernhard E. Fernow, 

 formerly director of the Cornell School of Forestry. 



At a meeting of the governors of the Southeastern Agricultural College at Wye, 

 held on Monday, October 24, it was decided, according to Nature, to develop further 

 the forestry department, for which a grant will be sought from the Board of 

 Agriculture. 



C. D. Howe, assistant in botany in the University of Chicago, has been appointed 

 instructor in botany in the Biltmore Forest School, Biltmore, N. C, and will begin 

 his new duties on January 1. 



A department of agricultural-chemical technology has been established in the 

 Polytechnicum at Budapest, and Dr. Thomas Kosuttiny, director of the Chemical 

 Central Station and the Chemical Agricultural Institute, has been placed in charge 

 of the new department. 



Prof. Dr. Franz Tangl, professor of physiological chemistry at the University of 

 Budapest and one of the leading European investigators in the physiology of animal 

 nutrition, has been appointed professor of physiology at the University of Innsbruck. 



Dr. K. Windisch, of Berlin, has been appointed director of the agricultural insti- 

 tute at Hohenheirn. 



Among the honors conferred by King Edward on the occasion of his last birthday 

 was that of Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (C. M. G) 

 upon Francis Watts, director of agriculture in the Island of Antigua and agricultural 

 chemist for the Colony of the Leeward Islands. 



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