700 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



topic* pertaining to health or hygiene, and the series should iirove of special 

 value and interest to teachers and students. 



JiitcnHitio)inJe Zcitschrift filr PliynikdliscIi-CheiiiixrUr Hiolof/ic is being pub- 

 lished at Lcipsic and Berlin under the editorshij) of Dr. J. Traube. Among 

 the articles in the initial number may be mentioned that on the History and 

 Development of Physico-chemical Investigations in Biology, by H. .7. Ham- 

 burger; Further Studies of the Physiology of Anabolism in the Living Plant 

 Cell, by F. Czapeli. and The Catalytic Effect of Alkaloids under Various 

 Physical and Chemical Conditions. 



Annali de Chimica is being publishe<l at Rome, with G. Ampola at the head 

 of a cont.s of editors and collaborators. The initial number contains an article 

 on Rancidity in Olive Oil and the Oxidation of Oleic Acid in Sunlight, by F. 

 Canzoneri and O. Bianchini. 



An Agricultural Journal is being i.ssued semiannually by the department of 

 agriculture of Bihar and Orissa and edited by the stuff of the Sabour Agi-i- 

 cultural College. The initial number contains original articles, weather and 

 crop reports, notes, revieAvs, notices, etc. 



Die Aclcerhau auf Ostpreussischen 'Siederungamoorcn is being issued by the 

 Prussian Chamber of Agriculture with Dr. Feldt as editor. The initial number 

 contains a report on the experimental field for moor reclamation at Bledau near 

 Craiiz. 



Miscellaneous. — At a meeting of the council of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science. April 20, action was taken whereby the entrance 

 fee is to be remitted during the present calendar year to new members in 

 Section M (Agriculture) who may join from the Society for the Promotion of 

 Agricultural Science, the American Society of Agronomy, the Society for Horti- 

 cultural Science, the American Society of Animal Production, and the Official 

 Dairy Instructors' Association. 



A scheme for teaching nature study and manual tr.-iining in the elementary 

 schools of Mauritius, together with the establishment of school gardens and 

 workshops, has been formulated by the department of agriculture in conjunction 

 with the director of public instruction. 



The new laboratory building at the Philippine College of Agriculture for the 

 use of the departments of physics, rural engineering, and botany has recently 

 been completed at a cost of about $16,500. 



The Philippine legislature has appropriated $7,500 for the establishment, 

 equipment, and maintenance of an agricultural school in the Province of Isabela. 



The Y. M. C. A. College of Springfield, Mass., has established a special depart- 

 ment for country work under the .supervision of Walter J. Campbell, formerly 

 Penusylv.-mia state secretary for country work. 



Science states that Dr. Fr. Ostendorf, i)rofessor of agriculture in the technical 

 school at Karlsruhe, has been killed in the European war. 



