1144 KXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Eynsham Hall, Oxon. Reference to Mr. Mason's experiments was made in a pre- 

 vious issue (E. S. R., 16, p. 837). 



Prize Competition. — In a note in Nature, quoted from the Chemist ami Druggist, it is 

 announced that Dr. Henri de Rothschild has recently offered two prizes for compe- 

 tition, which will be awarded next year. The first one is a prize of $1,000 for the 

 best work on the subject of the best alimentary rations of a child from its birth until 

 the age of 2 years. The second one is a prize of $600 for the best study on the sup- 

 ply of milk to a large city (hygiene, technology, transport, legislation, sale, etc.). 

 These prizes may be divided should the jury of award consider it advisable. The 

 competition is open to foreigners, and papers should be sent in before June 1, 1906. 

 The secretary is M. ('. Nourry, 49 rue des Saints-Peres, Paris. 



Miscellaneous.— -The governor of the island of Guam has established an experiment 

 station to develop and improve the agricultural resources of the island. Hermann 

 L. W. Costenoble has been placed in charge as superintendent. 



The Russian Ministry of Agriculture and Imperial Domains was abolished May 19, 

 and was transformed by an imperial ukase into the Administration of Land Improve- 

 ments and Agriculture. A. S. Yermolov, who had been at the head of the Ministry 

 of Agriculture and Imperial Domains for 12 years, was appointed a member of the 

 imperial council. 



The date fixed upon for the annual convention of the Association of American 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations is November 14. As previously 

 announced, the meeting will be held in this city. 



At the annual meeting of the Herefordshire Education Committee, the agricultural 

 subcommittee reported the receipt of a memorandum from the Bishop of Hereford 

 urging the desirability of establishing at Hereford a well-equipped and efficient 

 agricultural institute, with courses of instruction especially adapted to meet the 

 practical needs of the county. The scheme was highly favored by the agricultural 

 members of the committee, and will be given every consideration by the general 

 committee. 



W. H. Beal, of this Office, is spending the summer in travel in Europe. He will 

 visit a large number of the institutions for agricultural education and research, and 

 will attend the sessions of the international congresses on agricultural education and 

 on agricultural engineering at Liege, Belgium. 



H. E. Barnhard, chemist to the New Hampshire State Board of Health, has 

 resigned to accept the position of chemist to the new Indiana Laboratory of Hygiene 

 at Indianapolis. C. D. Howard, associate chemist of the West Virginia Station, has 

 been appointed his successor in New Hampshire. 



Dr. Julius Nessler, agricultural chemist of Karlsruhe, has died at the age of 77 

 years. 



Dr. Albert Hilger, professor of applied chemistry in the University of Munich, and 

 since 1878 editor of Jahresberichi der Agriculturchemie, died May 18 at the age of 66 

 years. 



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