500 EXPEBIMENT STATION EECOKD. [Vol. 87 



Virginia Station. — Recent appointments include M. O. Wilson as superintend- 

 ent of the Charlotte County substation, vice A. P. Moore, resigned to enter a 

 i-eserve officers' training camp; W. G. Harris as associate chemist; S. A- 

 Wingard, previously assistant in agronomy at the Alabama Station, as assistant 

 plant pathologist ; and S. C. Harmon as assistant agronomist. 



Virginia Truck Station. — J. T. Rosa, jr., has resigned as assistant horticul- 

 turist to become instructor in horticulture at the University of Mis-souri. 



States Eelations Service. — Dr. E. R. Flint, professor of chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Florida, has been appointed scientific and administrative assistant, 

 succeeding Dr. E. V. Wilcox, whose resignation has been previously noted. 

 D. W. May, agronomist in charge of the Porto Rico Station, will be located In 

 Washington, D. C, for several months, during which time he will continue his 

 connection with the station and will also assist In the abstrncting In animal 

 production for Experiment Station Record. H. L. Lang, of the Office of Home 

 Economics, for several years associated with the abstracting In foods and 

 human nutrition, has accepte<l an appointment as assistant professor of biology 

 and public health in tlie Carnegie Institute of Technolog>-. 



11. S. Plant Disease Survey. — On July 1 there was organized as an office of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, the Plant Disease Survey, with G. R. Lyman In 

 charge. The principal objects of the survey are to collect Information on plant 

 diseases in the United States, covering such topics as prevalence, geographic 

 distribution, severity, etc., and to make this information lmme<liately available 

 to all persons interested, especially to those concerned with disease ct)ntroL 

 Collaborators have been appointed from every State, and In addition, special 

 Investigations will be carrk^l on to collect data on disea.ses of particular Im- 

 portance. The Plant Disease Survey has begun the Issuing of a bulletin, which 

 will appear at frequent Intervals during the crop sea.son and will contain sum- 

 maries of all the Important information obtalne<l. 



New Journals. — The Journal of Dairy Science Is being publlshetl bi-monthly as 

 the official organ for the American Society of Dairy Science, formerly the 

 i^fficial Dairy Instructors Association. Abstracts of all papers read at the 

 meetings of the association are to be published in the journal, and many of the 

 more important paj^ers and reports will be presentid In full. Opportimity will 

 also be affordeil for the publication of other material. The initial number con- 

 tains the address of President Pearson, of the Iowa College, at the dedication 

 of the new dairy building at the University of Nebraska, .\ Preliminary Report 

 on a Series of Cooperative Bacterial Analyses of Milk, by R. S. Breed and 

 W. A. Stocking, a report of the committee on relations to bref-l as.sociatlons. 

 Specifications and Directions for Testing Milk and Cream for Butter Fat by 

 O. F. Hunziker, and a report of the committee on statistics of milk and cream 

 regulations. A board of 21 eilltors is In charge of the journal, with J. H. 

 Frandsen. of the Nebraska University and Station, as editor-in-chief. 



Journal of the Ataasachnsetta Poultry Society Is being published bi-monthly, 

 with J. C. Graham, of the Massachusetts College and Station, as e<litor. One of 

 the primary objects is to afford a means of publishing the papers dellveretl at the 

 annual poultry convention. The opening numbers also report some experi- 

 mental work. 



Following protests by numerous scientific orgjinlzatlons and others, It Is an- 

 nounced that publication of the Kcic livlletin, which was suspended as a war 

 economy measure a short time ago, is to be resumed, with sonic modifications na 

 to subject matter. 



