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ried on in cooperation with the Bureau nt Animal Industry of this Department 

 has been discontinued. 



A project has been outlined and work is in progress upon the effect of alkali 

 on cement and structural material. An interesting discovery is that sodium 

 sulphate, for a period of one month at least, gives cement greater strength. 



Ontario Agricultural College. — At the recent commencement of McMaster 

 University, Toronto. President G. C. Creelman was the recii)ient of the honorary 

 degree of doctor of laws. John Buchanan, associate professor of field hus- 

 bandry, has resigned to accept the position of i)ark commissioner in Calgary, 

 Alberta. 



Necrology. — Samuel B. Green, in charge of the horticultural and forestry 

 work of the Minnesota University and Station since 1SS8, died suddenly July 11, 

 from a stroke of apoplexy while directing work in forestry at the Lake Itasca 

 Forest School. 



Professor Green was born in Chelsea, Mass., September ir», 1S59. and was 

 graduated in 1879 from the Massachusetts Agricultural College, where he was 

 employed for a short time as superintendent of the horticultural department. 

 After several years in commercial work he went to Minnesota, where during his 

 long service he organized and developed with great enthusiasm and mitiring 

 energy the extensive horticultural and forestry work of the university and 

 station. Since 1907, when the state legislature made an appropriation for 

 fruit breeding experiments, he had built up outside the city of Minneapolis the 

 largest station for fruit breeding in existence — a product of his own plans and 

 activity. In recent years he had also given much attention to the work in 

 forestry, and upon the recent reorganization of the forestry courses into a 

 distinct college he had been selected as dean. He served as president of the 

 State Horticultural Society in 1907, and had been associate editor of Farm and 

 Fireside since 1SS8. Among his publications were a large number of bulletins 

 and reports from the station and the following books, some of which received 

 eight and nine editions: Amateur Fruit Growing (1894), Vegetable Growing 

 (1896), Forestry in Minnesota, Principles of American Forestry, and Popular 

 Fruit Growing (1909). 



Another of the organizers of instruction and experimental work in horticul- 

 ture passed away September 9. at Howell, Mich., where Welton M. Munson died 

 at the age of 44 years. Professor Munson was a native of Michigan, and was 

 graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College in 1SS8. In 1892 he received 

 the master's degree from the same institution, and in 1901 the Ph. D. degree 

 from Cornell University. He began his work in horticulture at Cornell Uni- 

 versity in 1889, serving as assistant in horticulture till 1891, when he assumed 

 charge of the newly established department of horticulture in the Maine College 

 and Station. In 1907 he accepted the position of professor of horticulture and 

 horticulturist in the West Virginia ITniversity and Station. For some time he 

 had been handicapped by failing health and formally resigned in Jmie, 1910. 

 He was the author of a considerable number of bulletins of the Maine and West 

 Virginia stations, contributing especially in late years to problems in orcharding. 



John A. Craig, one of the pioneers in animal husbandry instruction and for- 

 merly director of the Texas and Gklahoma stations, died August 9, at the age of 

 about 46 years. Professor Craig was of Canadian birth and training, studying 

 at the Ontario Agricultural College and the University of Toronto, and begin- 

 ning his work as the editor of the Canadian Live Stock Journal. In 1890 he 

 was chosen to head the first college department in this country to l>e devoted 

 entirely to animal husbandry, just established at the Ihiiversity of Wisconsin, 

 and he occupied this position for 7 years, when he accepted an appointment as 



