100 EXPERIMENT OTATiaX RECORD. 



James McCall, principal of tlie Glasgow Veterinary College, and one of the 

 pioneers in applying veterinary science to public health through the inspection 

 of meats and dairies, died November 1, 1915, aged SI years. 



Frederick Mawson Bailey, colonial botanist to the Queensland Government 

 since ISSl, died June 25, 1915, aged S8 years. In addition to various papers on 

 economic subjects, liis greatest work was the Flora of Queensland. 



Edouard Prillieux, member of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, and well- 

 known through his contributions to plant pathologj% died October 8, 1915,' aged 

 8G years. 



JI. F. P. V. Gu#gueu, professor of botany in the School of Agriculture at Grig- 

 non, has died at the age of 43 years. 



Ernest Lee, lecturer in agricultural botany at the University of Leeds, has 

 boon killed in the P^uropcan War. 



Miscellaneous. — The president of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries of 

 Great Britain has appointed a departmental committee for the purpose of con- 

 sidering the steps necessary by legislation and otherwise to maintain, and if pfis- 

 sible, increa.se the present production of food in England and Wales. Viscount 

 Milner has been made chairman and H. L. French, of the Board, .secretary of the 

 committee, and among the other members is A. D. Hall. This committee Is en- 

 tirely separate from the permanent agi-icultural consultative committee ap- 

 pointed at the beginning of the f^uropean War, to which miscellaneous subjects 

 connected with practical agriculture are being referred. 



An agricultural station has been established at Bie on the Benguella IMatoau 

 in Angola. Experiments in cotton growing are also being made. 



According to Deutsche LandicirtschaftUcitc Prcssc, Dr. Warmbold of Berlin 

 has been appointed director of the agricultural high school of Ilohenheim. Dr. 

 Gustav Frolich of the University of Giittingen has sucL-tH?iletl Dr. von Nathusius, 

 deceased, as professor of animal husbandry and dairying in the Agricultural 

 Institute of the University of Halle. 



Dr. Franz Iloncamp, director of the agricultural esi)eriment station at 

 Rostock, Germany, has received the iron cross of the .second class. 



G. JIa.ssee has retired as head of the cryptogamic department at the herbarium 

 at the lloyal Botanical Gardens at Kew. 



A statue has been dedicated at the agricultural school at Saragossa, Spain, in 

 honor of Rodriguez Ayuso, a former director. 



Tlie Philippine Commission lias allotted $17,500 for agricultural and industrial 

 advancement, sanitation, education, and irrigation. 



Dr. Frank K. Cameron rcsignetl from the Bureau of Soils of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agi-iculture November 1, 1915, to engage in commercial work. 



