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growth relations, one week being allotted for each topic. There will also be 

 an adjunct course running through the entire session to provide a review of the 

 physico-chemical elements involved in growth. 



The work in agricultural education will be given the first week of the school 

 and will deal with the foundations of petlagogj- and methods of teaching, fol- 

 lowed by seminars on the practice of teaching. 



The study of agricultural production, given the second week, will deal with 

 fundamental factors which govern success in agriculture, including accounting 

 and business methods. The seminars in this course will include discussions of 

 the factors of production in orcharding, market gardening, floriculture, dairy- 

 ing, and poultry husbandry. There will also be conferences on the scientific 

 basis of agriculture. 



The work in distribution and marketing will include Iwtures and seminars 

 during the tliird week, as well as conferences on farm finance and making the 

 farm pay. During the fourth week lectures will be given on land problems, 

 supplementing tlie work on production and including sociological studies. There 

 will also be lectures, seminars, and a conference on rural organizations. 



At the close of the school an eight-day automobile excursion has been ar- 

 ranged which will afford opportunities to observe some features of the intensive 

 agriculture of Now England. 



" Ground Levels in Democracy." — Dr. L. H. Bailey has assembled the addresses 

 delivered by him as vice-president of Section M (Agriculture) of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, and two others of similar char- 

 acter, and published them privately under the title Ground Levels in Democ- 

 racy. He offers to send the book free, to persons interested, upon application 

 to his home address, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Miscellaneous. — According to a note in Science, Sir Eustace Gurney has offered 

 to Cambridge University a tract of 257 acres with a view to encouraging the 

 study of forestry. 



The journal hitherto known as the Journal of Economic Biology is to be con- 

 fined to original research in systematic and anatomical zoology, and has been 

 renamed the Journal of Zoological Research. 



La Enologia Argentina is an illustrated monthly journal, devoted to enology, 

 viticulture, general agriculture, etc., and issued as the organ of the enological 

 and viticultural center at Mendoza, Argentina. 



Theodore Pergande, scientific assistant in the Bureau of Entomology, died 

 March 23 at the age of 76 years. He had been connected with this Department 

 since 1878 and had worked especially with the Aphidldje. 



