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State and the general scientific advancement of its agriculture, and there were many 

 warm expressions of the respect and affection in which he is held. 



Albert F. W Is, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, lias been delegated to attend 



the Second International Botanical Congress, to be held at Vienna in June, and the 

 International Congress of Agriculture at Rome. 



Dr. Oscar Brefeld, director of the Vegetable Physiological Institute of Breslau, has 

 temporarily retired on account of a serious affection of the eyes. 



Dr. A. Ernst lias become professor of botany and director of laboratories at the 

 University of Zurich. 



Prof. F. W. Neger, of the forest school at Eisenach, has been choseu professor of 

 botany at the Forest Academy of Tharandt, to succeed Dr. F. Nobbe, who, as pre- 

 viously announced, has retired. Dr. YV. Migula, associate professor in the technical 

 high school at Carlsrnhe. succeeds Professor Neger at the forest school at Eisenach. 



Prof. A. S. Packard, of Brown University, widely known as an entomologist and 

 an extensive writer upon that subject, died February 14, at the age of 66 years. 



The course of Saturday afternoon lectures at the National Museum, under the 

 auspices of the Biological Society of Washington, this year included addresses by 

 Dr. L. O. Howard on Mosquitoes (March 25), Dr. A. D. Hopkins on Forest Insects 

 and their Destructive Work (April 1), and Dr. George T. Moore on Beneficial 

 Bacteria (April 8). 



It is announced that the annual meeting of the Association of German Naturalists 

 and Physicians will be held this year at Meran, Austria, September 25 to 30. 



A preliminary notice has been received of the Second International Congress of 

 Dairying, to be held at Paris in October next. 



M. Viger has been elected president of the French Society of Horticulture. 



The Liebig medal for researches in agricultural chemistry has been awarded by 

 the Munich Academy of Scie ces to Dr. Adolf Frank, of Charlottenburg. 



Miscellaneous. —The Burma government has decided, according to a note in Nature, 

 quoted from the Pioneer Mail, to discontinue the experiments for the improvement 

 of the silk industry in the more important silk centers of the province by the 

 importation of silkworm eggs from France. Owing to climatic and other causes, 

 rearing has failed with foreign imported eggs, and it is not considered worth while 

 pursuing the experiments without the aid of an expert. 



The Madras government has, according to a note in Nature, sanctioned the estab- 

 lishment of an experimental garden in Malabar to study the peppervine disease. 



A department of agriculture has recently been established in the British Colony of 

 the Fiji Islands, with Mr. Charles H. Knowles as superintendent of agriculture. 



The Mexican department of agriculture, according to a note in Science, is plan- 

 ning a series of meteorological stations, to be connected by telegraph with the 

 meteorological observatory in the City of Mexico. 



Two prizes for the best treatises on the rational food for man have, according to 

 a note in Nature, quoted from the Chemist and Druggist, been offered by Dr. Henri 

 de Rothschild, through the Scientific Society of Alimentary Hygiene, Paris. The 

 prizes are 5,000 and 3,000 francs, respectively. They will be awarded in 1906, and 

 the papers must be sent in by the close of this year. 



The announcement of the summer session at Columbia University mentions 

 courses in the chemistry of .nutrition, by Dr. H. C. Sherman; in food production 

 and manufacture, by Prof. H. T. Vulte; in household chemistry, by Professor Vultc; 

 and in the theory and practice of teaching nature study in elementary schools, and 

 biological nature study, by Prof. M. A. Bigelow and Miss Ada Watterson. 



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