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merits with parasites or natural enemies for destroying these moths. A. H. Kirkland, 

 a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and formerly connected with 

 the gypsy-moth work of the State, has been appointed superintendent, at a salary of 

 $5,000 a year. 



Personal Mention. — Director E. B. Voorhees, of the New Jersey stations, lias been 

 appointed mi the New Jersey State forestry commission. 



Dr. A. ('. True, of this < Mlice, has accepted the chairmanship of the section on pro- 

 duction by irrigation of the National Irrigation Congress, which meets this year at 

 Portland, Oreg., August 21-24. 



Dr. A. Kraemer, professor of agricultural chemistry in the Polytechnicum at 

 Zurich, will retire October 1. 



Jt is noted from Science that Dr. J. Aderhold has been appointed director of the 

 newly established Imperial Biological Institute for Agriculture and Forestry at Berlin. 



Prof. F. Wohltmann, for ten years director of the agricultural experiment station 

 at Bonn-Poppelsdorf, and professor of agriculture in the academy, has accepted a 

 call to Halle. In his lectures at Halle Professor "Wohltmann will include a course in 

 tropical agriculture with special reference to the German colonies. 



It is proposed to erect a memorial to the late Prof. Emerich Meissl in the agricul- 

 tural experiment station at Vienna, with which he was connected for more than 

 twenty years. The call for subscriptions for that purpose is signed by the minister 

 of agriculture, the present director of the station, Dr. F. W. Dafert, the presidents of 

 the Royal Agricultural Society of Vienna, of the Austrian Chemical Society, and 

 other agricultural organizations. 



Miscellaneous. — A pamphlet recently issued by the Vermont State Board of Health, 

 entitled Laws Relative to Pure Food, contains the text of the State pure-food law 

 which was passed at the close of last year, together with rules and regulations pre- 

 scribed by the board of health to facilitate the enforcement of the law. The latter 

 define a long list of food substances, giving standards in a number of instances. The 

 execution of the law is in the hands of the State board of health. 



The Albany Journal states that the theme of the Forty-third Convocation of the 

 University of New York, which will be held in Albany June 28, 29, and 30, will he 

 Education as Applied to the Industrial and Commercial Development of the Coun- 

 try. The principal topics to be considered are education for commerce, education 

 for industry, and education for agriculture. The latter subject will be presented by 

 Dean AV. A. Henry, of the College of Agriculture of the University of Wisconsin. 



The president of the board of agriculture and fisheries of Great Britain has, accord- 

 ing to a note in Nature, appointed a departmental committee to investigate the 

 pathology and etiology of epizootic abortion, and to determine what preventive and 

 remedial measures, if any, may with advantage be adopted with respect to that 

 disease. The chairman of the committee is Prof. J. MacFadyean, principal of the 

 Royal Veterinary College. 



Lord Curzon has laid the foundation stone of the Agricultural College at Pusa, 

 India. This college and experiment station were made possible by a gift of $150,000 

 by Mr. Henry Phipps, of Pittsburg, to which reference has previously been made 

 (E. S. R., 15, p. 941). 



The Belgian Royal Academy has announced the following prize subjects, among 

 others: The Function of Albuminoids in Nutrition, and the Soluble Ferments of 

 Milk. The prizes range from $120 to $200 in value. 



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