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land and $1,OOJ a year toward opt'rating expenses for such period as the sta- 

 tion sees tit to carry on exiKiriniental work there. The farm will be devoted 

 I" L'eneral agricultural investigations. A. L. Wilson has been appointetl super- 

 iiiicndent. 



W. W. Henderson, piofrssor of zttology and entomology and State entomolo- 

 gist, has resignwl to lieconu* president of the Brigliain Young College. Herbert J. 

 Tadv has been appointetl instructor in zoology and assistant entomologist, vice 

 I'li.irles .1. Sorenson n'signed to engage in commercial work. 



Vermont University. — Guy W. Bailey, acting president, has been ai)pointed 

 |M (sident. 



Virginia College and Station. — J. C. Hart, associate agronomist in the sta- 

 tion, has been transferred to the extension division, assuming the duties of 

 •agronomist therein .July 1. 



Wasliington .Station. — Otto McCreary, assistant chemist in the New York 

 State Station, hits been appointed assistant chemist beginning September 1, 

 and W. I. .N'ightingale, assistant bacteriologist. 



\<'w .Journals.— The first issue has recently been received of M'orld Afjricul- 

 hirr, which is being published at Amher-st, Mass., as the official organ of the 



A rican K. F. Farmers' Club and the World Agriculture Society, aspreviously 



in,iiouMce<l (K. S. U.. 41, p. 107). The initial number is that of October- 

 lii( ember, T.)l!», and the second that of June, 1920, but quarterly publication 

 !■- 'oiitemplated. 



i he i)urposes of the magazine are announced as follows: To further a .sym- 

 pathetic understanding anjong all nations in matters relating to the production, 

 di>rributioii, and consumption of the products of the .soil; to encourage study 

 ! he principles which should control the agricultural policies of the world 

 lie end that every individual may do his full duty and may enjoy his right- 

 iiil share of the results; to aid in the application of these principles through 

 ihf dissemination of information, the exchange of students and teachers be- 

 tween educational institutions, and the rendering of practical assistance in 

 I hi' agricultural regions devastated by the world war and wherever such as- 

 ^! tance is needed; to i)romote the correlation on world lines of all agencies 

 ■ erned in rural improvement, technical, scientilic, economic, and social, and 



-leater api>reciation of the po.ssibilities of the country for the develoiiment of 

 the highest types of individual and .social life. 



In addition to the World Agriculture Society the journal expects to print 

 oihcial items regarding the International Institute of Agriculture, the American 

 E. F. Farmers' Club, American Country Life Association, the International 

 Live StiKk Breeders' Association, the Beaune Connnittee on World Coopera- 

 tion in Agriculture and Country Life, the International A.s.sociation of Agri- 

 cultural Missions, the Agricultural Club of the North Carolina College, and 

 tlie Agricultural Society of France. The June issue contains the officers of 

 ilit'se organizations; rep<jrts of the Beaune conference of 1910, and the Belgian 

 ional conference, and of the International Association of Agricultural Mi.s- 

 .^L.iis f)f 1920: a memorandum presented to the Peace Conference on World Agri- 

 cultural Principles by President K. L. Buttertield of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural Collt^ge; a tribute to the late David Lubin ; Some Impressions of French 

 Agriculture by Capt. E. N. Wentworth, A.ssistant Director of the College of 

 Agriculture, American K. F. I'niversity; the State Society of Agricultural 

 Teaching in France, by G. Wery, Director of the National Institute of Agron- 

 omy ; several shorter articlese relative to the reconstruction of French agricul- 

 ture ; and other topics. 



Hereditas, a journal of genetics, is being published by the Mendeliau So- 

 ciety of Lund, Sweden. The publication committee is headed by Dr. H. 



