not.es. 



Iowa Station. — W. T. Shaw lias recently lieen aj^pointed assistant entomologist 

 of the station. 



New INIexico College and Station. — Dr. Frederic W. Sanders, who for the past 

 two years has been president and director, has declined reelection except upon con- 

 dition that the system of annual elections be abandoned or modified. The board of 

 control having declined to change its sj'stem, Dr. Sanders will leave the institution 

 and spend next year abroad. His successor has not yet been chosen. J. D. Tinsley 

 has been elected vice-director for the year beginning July 1 next, with the under- 

 standing that he shall in most things act as the responsible director. For the year 

 1901-1902 the president of the college will retain the title, of director. The depart- 

 ment of entomology in the station has been abolished. 



Oklahoma Station. — W. H. Coyle, of Guthrie, Okla., has been appointed a mem- 

 ber of the board of regents, vice J. C. Tousley, whose term has expired. William M. 

 Jenkins has succeeded C. M. Barnes as governor of Oklahoma and ex-officio member 

 of the board. 



Utah College and Station. — Peter A. Yoder, Ph. D. , has been appointed assist- 

 ant chemist in the college and station. 



Experiment Farm of the Virginia State Board of Agriculture. — S. B. Heiges, 

 formerly pomologist of this Department, has been appointed superintendent of the 

 farjii at Saxe, Charlotte County, Va. , secured by the State board of agriculture for 

 the purpose of conducting experiments with fertilizers on various crops, as required 

 by the provisions of the State fertilizer law. It is proposed to give special attention 

 to experiments with tobacco, but other crops will also be included. Professor Heiges 

 ■will have the assistance of a tobacco expert in his work with this crop. 



New Publications. — Clhnat is the name of a 16-page (32 pages octavo) semimonthly 

 meteorological journal whose publication at St. Petersburg under the editorship of 

 N. A. Dembchinsky is announced. The main object of this journal is stated to be 

 the exact prediction of the weather. It will also include reports of theoretical inves- 

 tigations on questions of weather and climate, especial attention being given, how- 

 ever, to the influence of the moon on the weather, as the editor maintains that "the 

 chief factor in the weather is the moon's attraction." All of the more important 

 papers will l>e printed in Russian, French, English, and German. The predictions 

 will cover Europe and North America, and the journal will be issued "sufficiently 

 early to reach the most distant points (e. g., San Francisco) for which predictions 

 are made before the fortnight to which they refer, e. g., the forecasts for the 1-15 

 May will come out in the beginning of April." Each number will contain 78 curves 

 giving the weather elements at many stations in Europe and North America, and 2 

 maps of Europe and 2 of North America giving isobars and isotherms for each week. 



A new recruit to the agricultural press, which from its title and objects is worthy 

 of special mention, is Agricultural Experiments, described as "a practical review of 

 experiment-station work, recent agricultural investigations and developments in all 

 branches of rural industry." Its o])ject is to i)resent timely and readable reviews 

 of the experiment-station and similar literature in order to aid the farmer in keeping 

 posted in the progress along these lines and to assist him in the practical ai)plication 

 of the results. In addition to these reviews and notes the paper contains special 



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