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boy he met with n serious accident which practically cost him the loss of an eye, so 

 that while " his )j:reat pluck enabled him to accomi)lish his life's work with little 

 apparent hindrance, the disadvantaire of weak sight was very real." In-si)eaking of 

 his traits the writer says: "He was an indefatigable worker and loved to accumulate 

 an immense mass of results, frequently of a similar kind; and a reader of Rotham- 

 sted papers is sometimes so overwhelmed by numerical statements that, to use. a 

 familiar simile, ' he finds it difficult to see the wood for the trees.' . . . He enjoyed 

 a very vigorous constitution, and continued actively at work up to the last year of 

 liis life. Unfortunately, his disjiosition forbade his cooperation with any younger 

 colfeague, and the institution at Rothamsted is now left without any apparent suc- 

 cessor to its historic labors." 



Joseph A. Bulkeley, a graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College, and recently 

 experimentalist and assistant professor of agriculture at the Wagga Experimental 

 Farm, Jsew South Wales, has been appointed manager of the experimental farm at 

 Grafton, on the north coast of New South Wales. The farm is in embryo, and Mr. 

 Bulkeley will have charge of organizing and inaugurating the work there. The farm 

 comprises something over 2,000 acres, including soil of poor, medium, and good 

 cjuality. The lines of work will deal chiefly with grasses and forage plants, with a 

 view to establishing the dairy industry, and with the management and improvement 

 of live stock. 



At the recent meeting of the American Society of Bacteriologists Prof. H. W. Conn, 

 of Wesleyan University and the Connecticut Storrs Station, was elected president. 



A. P. Bryant, for several years assistant in the nutrition investigations of this Office 

 at ^liddletown. Conn., has resigned his position to take u\-> work in food chemistry 

 with the Glucose Sugar Refining Company of Chicago. He will enter upon his new 

 duties early in March. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded the Lavoisier medal to Emil Fischer, 

 of Berlin, for his work as a whole and especially that relating to the synthesis of 

 sugars; the Bordin prize to Matruchot and Molliard for their researches on the influ- 

 ence of the external conditions on the protoplasm and nucleus in i^lants; and the 

 Montague prize to Maze for his researches on the mechanism of the fixation of nitro- 

 gen by Leguminosa?. 



Science notes that Dr. William Somerville, late professor of agriculture at the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge, has been appointed assistant secretary of the British Board of 

 Agriculture on the retirement of Sir Jacob Wilson. Dr. Somerville is succeeded by 

 T. H. Middleton, formerly professor of agriculture in the Durham College of Science 

 at Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Prof. V. Kreusler, editor of Biedermanns Centralhkdt fiir Agrikultvrchemk', retired at 

 the close of the past year, and has been succeeded by Prof. 0. Kellner, director of 

 the ^h'k'kern Experiment Station, who was one the founders of the journal. 



MiscELLAXEors. — A new feature has been introduced in the Journal of tlie Royal 

 Horticultural Society, which greatly enlarges the usefulness of that publication. It 

 consists of notes on recent research work and short abstracts from current British 

 and foreign periodical literature affecting horticultural and botanical science. The 

 more important articles are reviewed at some length and placed under the heading 

 of "Notes on recent research." In both the notes and the abstracts the material is 

 arranged alphabetically under the name of the plant, insect, disease, etc., as far as 

 the material will lend itself to such arrangement. It is proposed to review 55 of the 

 more prominent horticultural, l)()tanical, and scientific journals of England, Conti- 

 nental Europe, America, and other countries; and 82 members of the society have 

 consented to help in this work. In this first attempt 14 pages of notes on recent 

 research and 50 pages of abstracts are given. Floriculture and ornamental shrubs 

 and plants are given especial attention, as well as the diseases and insect pests of plants. 



