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tion of food supplies in war time, the development of the agricultural coopera- 

 tive movement in England and Wales, reviews of the current literature on 

 cooperation and related topics, etc. 



Part 1 of Volume 1 of Ectoparasites has been issued and it is announced that 

 succeeding parts will appear at irregular intervals. It is being edited by Dr. 

 K. Jordan and N. Charles Rothschild. The initial part contains the following 

 articles: On Some Siphonaptera Collected by W. Riickbeil in East Turkestan, 

 by K. Jordan and N. C. Rothschild; Further Notes on Siphonaptera fracticipita, 

 with Descriptions of New Genera and Species, by N. C. Rothschild; On Neop- 

 sylla and Some Allied Genera of Siphonaptera, by N. C. Rothschild ; and Con- 

 tribution to Our Knowledge of American Siphonaptera, by K. Jordan and N. G. 

 Rothschild. 



The State Plant Board of Florida has begun the publication of a Quarterly 

 Bulletin devoted to applied entomology and plant pathology in general, with 

 special reference to the prevention, control, and eradication of injurious insects 

 and plant diseases in Florida. The initial number deals with citrus canker 

 investigations. 



The initial number of Archives do Jardim Botanico do Rio Janeiro has re- 

 cently been received. It contains three articles dealing with the flora of the 

 x-egion, and includes meteorological observations at the Garden in 1914. 



Revista de la Sociedad de Medicina Veterinaria is being published by the Soci- 

 ety of Veterinary Medicine of Buenos Aires. It is devoted mainly to original 

 articles, bibliographical notes, the proceedings of the society, etc. 



TliC Agricultural Journal is being published monthly by the department of 

 agriculture of British Columbia, for the systematic dissemination of agricultural 

 information. 



Miscellaneous. — The Philippine Government has made available funds for 

 the establishment of a permanent tobacco experiment station in the upper 

 Cagayan Valley. The station is to be administered by the Bureau of Agricul- 

 ture, with the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the College of Agriculture of 

 the Philippines contributing advice and other assistance. D. B. Paguirigan and 

 Alfonzo B. Cagurangan will be members of the staff. 



At the last commencement of the University of the Philippines, the degree of 

 Bachelor of Agriculture was conferred on nine candidates, that of B. S. in Agri- 

 culture on one candidate, and that of M. S. on two candidates. 



A four-story annex to the Oka Agricultural Institute, Quebec, 160 by 63 feet, 

 has been completed. This will be utilized mainly as a dormitory, but also con- 

 tains classrooms for zootechny and field crops. 



E. D. Ball, formerly director of the Utah Station, has been made state ento- 

 mologist of Wisconsin, vice J. G. Saunders resigned to succeed H. A. Surface 

 as economic zoologist of Pennsylvania. 



According to a note in Science, C. B. Williams has been appointed to study the 

 parasites of the sugar-cane frog-hopper in Trinidad. 



