200 EXPEKIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The establishment of the school has been made possible through a gift of 

 Theodore N. Tail, President of the American Telegraph and Telephone Com- 

 pany, who has associated with him as an advisory committee the following 

 persons : Ex-Governor Fletcher I). Proctor, President John M. Thomas of 

 Middlebnry College, President W. D. Gibbs of the New Hampshire College, 

 Dean J. L. Hills of the University of Vermont, State Superintendent of Educa- 

 tion Mason S. Stone, and John W. Titcomb of Middlebnry, Vt. The director 

 of the school will be Arthur W. Merrill, a graduate of the New Hampshire 

 College, and for several years teacher of agriculture at the Baron de Hirsch 

 School, 



Maryland State Normal School for Negroes. — The Maryland State Board of 

 Edu<ation, in accordance with an act of the general assembly in 1908, has 

 selected a farm of 178 acres near Bowie, on the Pennsylvania Railroad between 

 Washington and Baltimore, as a site for a new state normal school for negroes. 

 Instruction is to be given in mec.-hanic arts, trades, agriculture, and domestic 

 science, as well as the common school branches. George H. C. Williams, prin- 

 cipal of the Montgomery County Agricultural School at Sandy Spring, has been 

 appointed principal of the new normal school. 



New Journals. — Bulletin of Entomological Research is being issued at London 

 by the Entomological Research Committee of Tropical Africa, with the scientific 

 secretary. Guy A. K. Marshall, as editor. The initial number contains an intro- 

 ductory statement regarding the work of the committee (E. S. R.. 21, p. 690), 

 a list of collections received, and the following origin»l articles: A New Genus 

 and Two New Species of African Fruit Flies, and A New Species of Cordylobia, 

 by E. E. Austen ; Notes on the Blood Sucking Diptera Met With in Eastern and 

 Southeastern Abyssinia, by R. E. Drake-Brockman ; Notes on Two West African 

 Hemiptera Injurious to Cocoa, and On the Parasites of Two Species of West 

 African Wild Silkworms, by G. C. Dudgeon; The Study of Mosquito Larva?, by 

 W. M. Graham; On Scale Insects (Coccidfe), Etc., from the Uganda Protect- 

 orate, by R. Newstead; and On the Larval and Pupal Stages of West African 

 Culicida", l)y W. Wesche. 



L'Egyptc Contemporaine is being published bimonthly at Cairo as the organ 

 of the Khedivial Society of Political Economy. Statistics, and Legislation, with 

 Germain Martin as editor in chief. Considerable attention is given in the 

 initial numbers to agricultural questions, such as mutual insurance and credit 

 societies in Egyi)t, the progress of agriculture in France during the last fifty 

 years, agricultural syndicates in Egypt, the culture of sugar cane and cotton 

 in Egypt in their economic relations, and the manufacture of fertilizer in Cairo. 



American Farming and Farm Implements is being published at St. Petersburg 

 in the Russian language, as a semimonthly devoted to the purpose of familiariz- 

 ing Russian landowners and others with American methods of farming and 

 American implements and machinery. The initial number contains an article 

 on the activities of governmental and other agricultural institutions in this 

 country, dealing especially with the extension phases, 



AUanza Cientiflca Universal is a monthly, published at Durango, Mexico, as 

 the organ of the sectional committee for the State of Durango. It is under the 

 directorship of Prof. Isaac Ochoterena, who contributes an extended article to 

 the initial numbers on the native vegetation of the State. 



Kolloidchemische Beiliefte is to be published at irregular intervals under the 

 editorship of Dr. W. Ostwald. at Dresden, as a supplement to Zeitsclirifl fiir 

 Chemie tind Industrie der Kolloide. It is to be devoted to monographs on pure 

 and applied colloid chemistry. 



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