100 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOED. 



American Association of Pathologists and Bateriologists. — The tenth annual 

 meeting of this association was held May -i to .'), at Washington, D. C. An 

 important feature of the meeting was a symposium on artificial immunity, pre- 

 sided over by l^. L. Trudeau. The topics discussed were The Formation of 

 Antibodies, by L. Hektoen, of the University of Chicago; The Relation of 

 Anaphylaxis to InWunnlzation, by F. P. Gay. of Harvard University ; Immuniza- 

 tion in Nonbacterial Diseases, by S. P. Beebe, of Cornell University; and a 

 general discussion on the above topics by J. G. Adami, A. Stengel, L. Loeb, and 

 J. F. Anderson. 



New Journals. — The American Breeders' Magazine is being published as a 

 quarterly by the American Breeders' Association, under the editorship of 

 Assistant Secretary Willet M. Hays of this Department, as secretary of the 

 association, N. E. Hansen, secretary of the plant section, and H. W. Mumford, 

 secretary of the animal section. The initial number contains an article on the 

 field and outlook of the new journal, by Secretary James Wilson, of this Depart- 

 ment ; brief illustrated sketches of the work of Darwin, Mendel, and Cruik- 

 shank ; articles on Increasing Protein and Fat in Corn, by L. II. Smith, of 

 the Illinois University and Station. New Methods of Plant Breeding, by G. W. 

 Oliver, of the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department, The Army Horse, 

 by Carlos Guerro, and Poultry Breeding in South Australia, by D. F. Laurie; 

 reports of several committees of the association on some phase of their work; 

 editorials; announcements; and notes. 



BuUetin BihJiographique Hebdomadaire is being published by the Interna- 

 tional Institute of Agriculture. Each number contains lists of the weekly 

 acquisitions to the library of the institute. These are arranged in three sec- 

 tions, the first enumerating the accessions and classifying them according to 

 the Dewey decimal system; the second listing in a similar manner articles of 

 general interest to the institute selected from the journals received; and the 

 third listing by countries the journals received. 



Tlie Mendel Journal is being publislunl -monthly by the Mendel Society of 

 London. Its object is announced in the initial number as to present Mendelism 

 " to a wider public by men who believe in its truth," and to collect data re- 

 garding the science of genetics, especially as applied to man. Aside from an 

 article on Parthenogenesis in Nicotiana, the initial number deals largely with 

 eugenics. It is announced that in future numbers prominence is to be given 

 to agricultural and horticultural pi'actices and problems. 



Miscellaneous. — Under an act passed April 11, the Philippine Bureau of 

 Agriculture has been transferred from the Department of the Interior to the 

 Department of Public Instruction. Archibald R. Ward, assistant professor of 

 veterinary science and bacteriology in the California University and Station, 

 has accepted a position as chief veterinarian in the bureau, and will sail from 

 San Francisco early in July to enter upon his new duties. 



Arthur C. Monahan, a 1900 graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege and at present principal of the high school at Turners Falls, Mass., has 

 been appointed specialist in agricultural education in the United States Bureau 

 of Education. 



Dr. C. B. Plowright. well known for his monograph of the British Uredinese 

 and Ustilaginete, died in April at the age of 61 years. In addition to the above 

 work he contributed more than one hundred papers on systematic mycology and, 

 plant pathology to scientific journals. 



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