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reaching some scientific basis for feeding operations, tlaere is still a large field 

 for tlie ordinary comparative feeding trial. 



President E. B. Forbes concluded tlie program in a paper outlining the de- 

 velopment of the association, stating that it had arisen out of the need by 

 animal husbandmen for some central organization, but that the original pur- 

 pose of cooperation in experimental work had been modified in recognizing the 

 element of competition which appeared to be an unavoidable and possibly desir- 

 able characteristic of station work. He stated that in recognizing this changed 

 aspect the society was now better prepared to accomplish some practical re- 

 sults, and suggested the appointment of a referee committee which should con- 

 sider the special problems arising and make recommendations at the next annual 

 meeting. The appointment of this committee was subsequently authorized. 



Recommendations looking toward the elimination of unnecessary variable 

 factors in feeding trials, presented by E. W. Morse at the last annual meeting 

 and referred to the committee on experiments, were found suggestive. The 

 committee on agricultural instruction proposed that the next meeting be 

 devoted largely to papers on agricultural teaching and suggested topics to be 

 discussed. The committee on terminology of feeding experiments gave an ex- 

 tended report recommending a uniform method of conducting slaughter analyses 

 of experimental animals, and recommending so far as feasible the adoption of 

 definitions of feedstuffs as used by the Association of Feed Control Officials. 

 Other animal husbandry and nutritional terms were defined and recommended 

 for adoption. The standardization of statistical methods was suggested. 



Ofiicers for the ensuing year were elected as follows : President, E. B. Forbes, 

 of Ohio; vice president, W. A. Cochel, of Kansas; and secretary-treasurer, 

 F. B. Morrison, of Wisconsin. 



Miscellaneous. — The rural education conference of Great Britain, constituted 

 in June, 1910, for three years, has now been succeeded by the agricultural 

 education conference, with Lord Barnard as president, and H. L. French, of 

 the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, as secretary. This conference will 

 act in an advisory capacity on questions pertaining to agricultural education. 



According to a note in Mature, the general committee which is promoting 

 the establishment of an Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, has decided 

 to attempt to raise $200,000 for buildings and endowment, of which half will 

 be sought from official sources. The location of the institution has not yet 

 been decided upon, but the committee favors Ceylon. 



The death in the European war is announced of Dr. Franz Marshall, director 

 of the experimental laboratory of the Agricultural Institute of the University 

 of Halle; Dr. Franz Waterstradt, professor of agricultui*e in the agricultural 

 school at Hohenheim ; and Andre Vuillet, well known in this country for his 

 publications on the gipsy moth and its parasites. 



Dr. M. C. Cooke, the well-known English mycologist, died November 12, 

 1914, in his ninetieth year. 



Dr. Jacob Eriksson has resided as chief of the phytopathological experi- 

 ment station at Stockholm, Sweden. 



