700 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. [Vol 40 



culture service and rice station at Cantho. The publication will include original 

 articles from the staff of the institute, official notices, popular articles from 

 various sources, etc. The initial number reports results of tests of tractors in 

 rice growing, analyses of manioc, red and white sweet potatoes, yams, and taro, 

 an article on Coffea cxcclsa and its culture, etc. 



R< vista de Agricultura ic Puerto Rico is being published by the Insular De- 

 partment of Agriculture and Labor. The initial number consists mostly of brief 

 popular articles by members of the staffs of the Insular and Federal Ex- 

 periment Stations. 



The Agricultural Station at Guadeloupe, established in April. 1018, has re- 

 cently published its initial bulletin. This is entitled Advice to Sugar C<nic 

 Groicers of Guadeloupe, by .1. Sydney I>ash. director of the station. 



Rivista <li Biologia is being issued bimonthly at Rome. Its scope is an- 

 nounced as Including general biology, genetics, cytology, protozoology, mor- 

 phology and comparative physiology of plants and animals, practical applica- 

 tions of botany (forestry, vegetable pathology, etc.) and zoology (agricultural 

 entomology, parasitology, zootechny, etc.), experimental and comparative pa- 

 thology, eugenics, social hygiene, biological methods, and international progress 

 in biolog] . 



The Kitasato Archives of Experimental Medicine is being published semi- 

 annually by the Kitasato Institute for Infectious Diseases of Tokyo. Japan, 

 largely for the purpose of making the results of Japanese research available to 

 the world. Articles are to be published in English, French, or German. The 

 initial number contains a paper entitled An Investigation of the Therapy of 

 Tuberculosis, by K. Simla, and another dealing with the etiology. Immunity to 

 infection, prophylaxis, and serum therapy in Weil's Disease {Spirochetosis 

 ictero-hcemorrhagica), by K. Onada et al. 



Beginning with the May Issue, The Milk Tm<ir Journal has been renamed 

 The Milk Magazine, with Dr. E. V. McCollum announced as the chief eontrihut- 

 in;. editor. 



It is announced that the Genera [nsectorum, which was being published at 

 Brussels at the outbreak of the war. is to be continued. Several parts about 

 to be published in 1914 are expected t" be issued tins year. The supply of the 

 parts previously published was preserved and is available for distribution. 



Miscellaneous. — A women's organisation known as the Federation of 

 Women's institutes of Canada was organized at Winnipeg, Manitoba, last Feb- 

 ruary. This organization is Dominion-wide in scope, and constitutes a federa- 

 ation of Provincial women's rural organizations Including women's institutes. 

 homemaking clubs, and home economics societies, a Federal conference is to 

 be held annually, that for 1010 being scheduled for Toronto. 



A Scottish station for Testing and Registration of Agricultural Plants has 

 been opened on a farm of about 200 acres accessible to Edinburgh. 



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