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at Briarcliff, the students will handle farm machinery and tools, prepare the soil, apply 

 fertilizers, sow the seed, plant orchards, make gardens and greenhouses, propagate 

 flowers, control insects, treat the diseases of plants and animals, and perform every 

 practical detail necessary to be understood on a big or a little farm. It should be 

 said that our aim is chiefly to make the school a practical institution in every respect. 

 Our students have come from different sections of the country, and mostly from the 

 cities, and our experience has been that the actual physical labor of farming incident 

 to our course of instruction in field work does not in any way detract from the attract- 

 iveness of study, even in the cases of young women students, of whom we have not 

 a few." 



School of Aviculture ix Fr.\nce. — A short account of the poultry farm school 

 at Gambais, near Houdan, France, is given in a current number of the Journal of 

 the Board of Agriculture of Great Britain. This school was founded by decree of the 

 Minister of Agriculture in 1888, on a farm where the present directors had success- 

 fully carried on artificial incubation for some years previously. It is in the midst of 

 a district where poultry farming is extensively followed. The practical appliances 

 used at the school are more or less the invention of the original founders, who have 

 introduced many improvements in existing machinery. The course, which is very 

 practical, covers 3 months, and three courses are given from February to October. 

 Pupils of either sex over 15 years of age are received alteruately. A certain amount 

 of elementary education is presupposed. The fees for the three months' course, 

 including tuition, board, and lodging, are about $70. On leaving the school, pupils 

 who have shown capacity to act as instructors in aviculture receive a certificate of 

 competency, which, it is said, enables them withoutdifliculty to obtain employment 

 in this line of industry. Some 500 pupils have passed through the school since its 

 foundation in 1888. 



Personal Mention. — We note from Science that Douglas A. Gilchrist, professor of 

 agriculture and director of the agricultural department at Reading College, has been 

 appointed professor of agriculture at the Durham College of Science, Newcastle, in 

 succession to Prof. T. H. Middleton, who was recently elected to the chair of agri- 

 culture in the University of Cambridge. 



According to Gardeners^ Chronicle, A. Millardet, professor of botany in the Univer- 

 sity of Bordeaux, France, has retired from active duty. Mr. IMillardet's name is 

 associated with the discovery of Bordeaux mixture, one of the widest known and 

 most satisfactory of fungicides. 



Dr. E. Zacharias, formerly director of the Botanic Gardens at Hamburg, has 

 become director of the Hamburg Botanical Institute. This includes the Botanic 

 Gardens, Economic Botanical Museum and Lal)oratory, and the Section of Seed 

 Control and Plant Pathology. 



Prof. Dr. Augusto Xapoleone Berlese has been elected jjrofessor of phytopathology 

 in the Royal High School for Agriculture in Milan, Itah\ 



Dr. J. B. de Toni, lately at Camerino, has Vjecome professor of botany and director 

 of the Botanic Gardens at the University of Sassari, Italy. 



Dr. Alessandro Trotter, late assistant in the Botanical Institute of the University 

 of Padua, has been chosen professor of natural history and phytopathology in the 

 School for Grape Culture and Enology at Avellino, Italy. 



Dr. A. Fischer, professor of botany in Leipzig, has been called to the position of 

 professor of botany and director of the Botanic Gardens at the University of Basel, 

 Switzerland. 



Dr. Treub, director of the Botanical Institute and Gardens at Buitenzorg, Java, is 

 away on leave until March, 1903. 



Miscellaneous. — A bill authorizing the transfer of supervision of national forest 

 reserves, now^ under the jurisdiction of the General Land Office of the Interior 



