JQO EXPERIMENT STATION RECOED [Vol. 35 



Dr. Graham Lusk; April 21, Investigations on the Mineralogical IMetabolism 

 of Animals, by Dr. E. B. Forbes ; and April 28, The Ilelation of Vitamins to 

 Nutrition in Health and Disease, by Dr. Carl Voegtlin. 



New Journals.— The Jourml of Bnrtcriolor/y is being publishe.l bi-itionthly as 

 the official organ of the Society of American Bacteriologists. It will contain 

 original articles and abstracts of papers read at meetings of tlie society and of 

 other bacteriological literature. 



The papers in the initial number include The Genesis of a New Science — 

 Bacteriology, by W. T. Sedgwick; The Pedagogics of Bacteriology, by D. H. 

 Bergey ; Further Studies on Bacterial Nutrition ; The Utilization of Proteid and 

 Nonproteid Nitrogen, by L. F. Rettger, N. Berman, and W. S. Sturges ; Studies 

 <in Soil Protozoa and Their Relation to the Bacterial Flora, I, by .1. IM. Sher- 

 man; A Culture Medium for Maintaining Stock Cultures of the Meningococcus, 

 by G. G. A. Roos; and Bile Comjiared with Lactose Bouillon lor Determining 

 the Presence of B. colt in Water, by M. M. Oost. 



Addisonm is a new quarterly journal published by the New York Botanical 

 Garden under a bequest by the late president of the garden. Judge Addison 

 Brown. This bequest proA'ides for the establishment and maintenance of a 

 magazine to be devoted exclusively to the illustration by colored plates of the 

 plants of the United States and its territorial possessions, and of other plants 

 llowering in the garden, together with brief popular descriptions and similar 

 data. The initial number contains plates and descriptions of 10 plants. 



Miscellaneous. — At a recent meeting of the State Commissioners of Agricultiire 

 and others, held in Washington, D. C, a permanent organization was effected 

 under the name of National Conference of Commissioners of Agriculture and 

 the following officers: President, E. J. Watson, of South Carolina; vice-presi- 

 di-nt W. P. Guptil, of Maine; and .secretary-treasurer, Clarence J. Owens, of 

 Washington, D. O. 



Tlie dei>artment of physics at the Ontario Agricultural College has been 

 divided, W. H. Day continuing at the head of the department, and in charge 

 of studies of evaporation, cold storage, farm power, farm water supi^ly, ventila- 

 tion, etc. J. R. Spry has been appointed in charge of the farm drainage cam- 

 paign. 



Dr. Alfred E. Cameron, of the University of Manchester, has been appointed 

 field officer of the entomological branch of the Canadian Department of Agri- 

 culture, and will study pear thrips and other insects in British Columbia. 



Prof. William .T. Beal, formerly professor of botany at the Michigan College, 

 was granted the degree of doctor of agriculture by Syracuse University at its 

 recent commencement. 



