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there had been real progress in the use made by farmers of the facilities ofCered. 

 He "sincerely believed that no previous expenditure of money had helped us in 

 this war more than that which had been spent in agricultural education." 



Necrology. — Dr. Albert J. Cook, State Horticultural Commissioner of Cali- 

 fornia siince 1911, died September 29 at the age of 74 years. Dr. Cook was an 

 early graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College, receiving the bachelor's 

 degree in 1862 and the master's degree in 1864, as well as that of doctor of 

 science in 1905. He also studied at Harvard University in 1867 and 1868. 



Dr. Cook began his long career at the Michigan College in 1867 as instructor 

 in njathematics. From 1868 to 1893 he -was professor of zoology and entomology, 

 as well as curator of the museum from 1875 to 1893 and entomologist in the 

 Michigan Station from 1888 to 3891. He was professor of biology in Pomona 

 College from 1893 to 1911. He had also been actively engaged in farmers' insti- 

 tute work in both Michigan and California and in the formation of organiza- 

 tions of citrus growers. He was an early experimenter with insecticides, nota- 

 bly kero.sene emulsion in 1877 and the use of arsenites for the control of the 

 codling moth in 1880, and the author of a number of works on bee keeping and 

 other agricultural topics. 



Prof. J. A. Portchinsky, the disting-uished Russian entomologist died May 21 

 at the age of 68 years. From 1874 to 1894, Professor Portchinsky was scien- 

 tific secretary to the Russian Entomological Society, and since 1894 chief of the 

 entomological bureau of the Ministi-y of Agriculture and chief editor of its 

 memoirs. He was the author of 24 memoirs, besides a large numlier of other 

 scientific contributions. He was also the Russian reviewer of the Revietv 

 of Applied Entomology. He had traveled extensively over Russia, Caucasia, 

 and Turkestan, and collected a mass of materials on the biology of insects. 



Foster E. L. Beal, assistant biologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 from 1891 to 1901 and subsequently economic ornithologist of the Bureau of 

 Biological Survey, died October 1 at the age of 76 years. Professor Beal was a 

 native of Massachusetts and a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology in 1871. He had specialized in economic ornithology and was the 

 author of numerous publications en the subject. 



New Journals, — Verslagen en Mededeelingen van de DirecUe van dem 

 Landhouw is being published by the Department of Agriculture, Industry, and 

 Commerce of the Netherlands. The initial number contains a history of the 

 appropriations for agriculture in the Netherlands since 1798, an account of 

 the Netherlands cattle trade with foreign countries, a report on agriculture 

 in Great Britain and Ireland and their trade in agricultural products, and a 

 list of the publications of the department from 1904 to 1915. 



Boletim Fluminense de AgricuUura e Industria is being published by the 

 State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as a means of bringing agricultural information 

 more directly to the attention of farmers. The principal article iu the initial 

 number deals with millet. • 



