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M.vssACiirsKTTS Stations. — The two stations in Massachusetts have been united 

 under the name of the Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College. President H. H. Goodell has been elected director pro tern. The reorgan- 

 ization will be completed at the June meeting of the board of control. 



AssociATioM OF Ameiucan Agricultukal Colleges and Experiment Sta- 

 tions. — Notice has been issued that the next annual meeting of the Association will 

 be held at Denver, Colorado, beginning July 16, 1895. 



Soil tests in Virginia. — At a meeting of the Virginia State Board of Agriculture, 

 April 10, 1895, called for the purpose of arranging for soil tests in the State, a reso- 

 lution was reported and approved authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture, in 

 conjunction with the Committee of Agricultural and Analytical Chemistry of the 

 Board, to expend $500 for conducting fertilizer tests in four different sections of the 

 State, comprising the tobacco, corn, grass, and truck lands, and $1,000 for a prelim- 

 inary examination of tlie composition, texture, and relations to moisture and crops 

 of the principal soils of the State, under the advice of the Chief of the Division of 

 Agricultural Soils of this Department. 



Four points were selected for experiment, as follows: For bright tobacco, Pittsyl- 

 vania County, near Danville; for corn, Hanover or Goochland County; for tracks, 

 the peninsula near Williamsburg; for grasses, Augusta County. 



Personal Mention. — Dr. J. P. Lotsy, associate in botany at Johns Hopkins 

 Uuiversitj", has accepted the directorship of the botanical gard(Mis of Java. 



Dr. A. Morgen, for several years first assistant at the Halle Station, has been 

 appointed professor of agricultural chemistry and director of the experiment station 

 at Holienheim, Germany, to succeed Prof. Eniil von Wolff, who has retired. 



Dr. Th. Pfeiffer, chemist to the German Agricultural Society, and formerly con- 

 nected with the Guttingcu Station, under Henneberg, has been elected professor of 

 agricultural chemistry in the University of Jena. He will be succeeded by Dr. J. 

 H. Vogel. 

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