600 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



of the National Agronomic and Veterinary Institute of Argentina with the Uni- 

 versity of Buenos Aires at La Plata. Pi*evious to this time there has been an 

 agronomic and veterinary faculty in the university, and the consolidation with 

 the institute, which was established in 1904, with the consequent strengthening 

 of the teaching staff, is expected to produce a very complete course of instruc- 

 tion. The total attendance in the university now reaches 4,364. divided between 

 the faculties of law and social science, i^hilosophy and letters, medicine, and 

 the physical and natural sciences. 



Forestry Instruction in the Philippines. — The regents have sanctioned a pro- 

 posal by the Philippine Bureau of Forestry to inaugurate a course in forestry 

 at the college of agriculture. The course is so arranged that boys who have 

 completed the seventh grade can enter and graduate in 4 years. The first two 

 years' worlv will be identical with that of the agricultural students, including 

 courses in English, mathematics, botany, zoology, and entomology, and the last 

 2 years will cover technical work in forest surveying, physiography, and other 

 auxiliary branches. 



Prcbiblj'^ half of the work will be practical field training, while during the 

 spri-ig vacations the whole class will go into camp in some forest where exten- 

 sive lumbering is in progress. The director of forestry and the director of 

 civil service have agreed that all Filipinos completing the course may be 

 appointed as rangers without examination. No tuition will be charged, and the 

 Bureau of Forestry will appoint 20 students this year who will receive about $20 

 monthly in addition to quarters and transportation. 



Miscellaneous. — Rcvista Industrial y Agricola de Tucuman is being published 

 as a monthly by the agricultural experiment station at Tucuman, Argentina, 

 of which R. E. Blouin and Fritz Zerban, formerly of the Louisiana Sugar 

 Station, are resi^ectively director and subdirector. The publication is to be 

 devoted to the furthering of the agricultural interests of the Province of 

 Tucuman, especially the sugar industry, and will serve as a medium for the 

 publication of results obtained by the station. The initial number contains the 

 rules governing the station, an account by the director of its function and work, 

 and brief articles on various phases of sugar production. 



A recent number of the Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information of the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew, announces that L. Lewton-Brain, formerly mycologist 

 and lecturer in agriculture to the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the 

 West Indies and afterwards assistant director in the division of physiology and 

 pathology in the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Station, has succeeded W. J. Gal- 

 lagher, resigned, as Director of Agriculture in the Federated Malay States. 



J. B. Carruthers, assistant director of agriculture in Trinidad, died July 17. 

 Mr. Carruthers was in his forty-first year and was most widely known for his 

 studies on cacao and rubber diseases, which were carried on in Ceylon and the 

 Federated Malay States. 



J. H. Grisdsjle, of the Canadian Central Experimental Farm, has been ap- 

 pointed Dominion agriculturist, with supervision of operations at all branch 

 stations and at the Central Farm in both animal husbandry and field crops. 



The Missouri VaUey Veterinary Bulletin, formerly published at Topeka, Kans., 

 is now being issued in Chicago under the title of the American Journal of 

 Veterinary Medicine. 



The second annual meeting of the American Society of Animal Nutrition is 

 to be held in Chicago, November 29, in connection with the International Live 

 Stock Exposition. 



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