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conference and to follow up its work. Reports to the Bureau of Education 

 and the Department of Agriculture as to the success of courses tested, with 

 recommendations for modifications or changes, were suggested. 



The report of the committee on institutional relations, also approved by the 

 conference, recommended that only four-year college courses, substantially as 

 outlined by the conference, be recognized by state departments of eilucation 

 for professional licenses to teach agriculture in secondary schools without 

 further examination. It was believed that much less work should be required 

 for teachers of agriculture in elementary schools, and that such training should 

 be done in normal schools and secondary agricultural schools. The training 

 of secondary teachers of agriculture, however, it was thought should be done 

 in the agricultiiral colleges, universities, and other institutions of like grade 

 equipped with full departments of agriculture and education. 



A conference with normal schools and secondary schools of agriculture to 

 determine a well defined course in agriculture for teachers in elementary 

 schools was favored. 



Necrology. — Prof. George E. Patrick, chief of the dairy laboratory of the 

 Bureau of Chemistry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture since 1901, died 

 at Washington, D. C, March 25 at the age of 64 years. Professor Patrick was 

 a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Cornell University in 1873 (M. S., 

 1874). He served as instructor in chemistry in Cornell University from 1873 

 to 1874, as assistant professor and professor t>f chemistry in the University 

 of Kansas from 1874 to 1883, as chemist of the I<»wa Station from 1888 to 

 1895, and as assistant professor of agricultural chemistry in the Iowa College 

 from 1890 to 1895, when he began his service with this Department. His work 

 was largely with the chemistry of dairy products, and he had had umch .service 

 as associate referee and referee of the Association of Official Agricultural 

 Chemists in this connection. 



Dr. Harry M. Hart, inspector of cattle at El Paso, Tex., for the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry of this Department, was killed March 9 at Columbus, N. 

 Mex., in the raid by Mexican bandits. He was a 1900 graduate of the college 

 of veterinarj' medicine of the Ohio State University and had been in the service 

 of this Department since graduation. 



The recent deaths are noted of Samuel Johnson, professor of agriculture in 

 the Michigan College fnmi 1880 to 1889. and the first agriculturist of the .sta- 

 tion ; W. W. Cooke, assistant biologist of the Biological Survey of this Depart- 

 ment and one of the leading authorities on bird migration and distribution ; 

 Charles A. Davis, peat expert of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, and known es- 

 pecially for his studies of peat and related subjects; and Thomas H. Cun- 

 ningham, inspector of fruit pests for British Columbia. 



It is reported that Kenneth U. I.ewin, protozoologist at tlie Rothamsted 

 Experiment Station since 1913, was killed in the European War, March 9. 



