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domicile of tlif council. A resoliiliun invltliif? tlie cooperation of nations wlii'-h 

 had remained neutral duriiii? tlie war was unanimously adopted. 



Union Check List of Agricultural Periodicals. — At the last meeting of the 

 Agricultural IJltraries Secticju of the American Library Association, held at 

 Asbury Park, N. J., June 2G, the subject of preparing a union check list of agri- 

 cultural periodicals in the libraries of the United States received special consid- 

 erati(jn and indorsement. A conunittee consisting of C. It. Green of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College, H. O. Severance of the University of Missouri, 

 and Miss Lydia K. Wilkins of the U. S. Department of Agriculture was ap- 

 pointed to decide as to the scope of such a list and the methods to be under- 

 taken in its compilation. 



Necrolog'y. — Dr. Emil Fischer, professor of chemistry at the Uiuversity of 

 Berlin since 1892 and one of the most eminent organic chemists of his genera- 

 tion, died in July at the age of 67 years. Among his many epoch-making 

 achievements may be cited his discove:^5»^of phenylhydrazine in 1875, the syn- 

 thesis of the most important sugars, his notable work on the enzyms and purin 

 group, and the hydrolysis and synthesis of the proteins. He was the recipient 

 of many honors, including the N.obel prize in chemistry in 1902. His researches 

 were compiled and published in book f(jrm in three large volumes: Unter- 

 suchungen iiber Amino-Sauren, Polypeptide, und Proteine (1899-190G), Unter- 

 suchungen in der Puriu Gruppe (18S2-190Uj, and Uutersuchuugen iiber Kohlen- 

 hydrate und Fermente (18S4-190S). His fame attracted students from all over 

 the globe, including many men well known for their contributions to organic 

 chemistry in this country. 



Dr. Aaron Aaronsohn, agricultural expert and director of the Jewish Agricul- 

 tural Experimental Station at Haifa, Palestine, was killed by a fall from an air- 

 plane May 15, near Boulogne, while flying from London to Paris. He had been 

 a technical adviser to the U. S. Department of Agriculture for several years, 

 and will be recalled through his rediscovery in 1906 of a wild emmer {Triticum 

 dicoccitm dicoccoides) in Palestine and Syria, believed to be a prototype of true 

 wheat (E. S. R., 23, p. 533). 



Adrian J. Brown of the University of Birmingham, England, well known for 

 his studies in fermentation and permeability, died July 2. 



Dr. W. G. Farlow, professor of cryptogamic botany of Harvard University, 

 died June 3 in his seventy-fifth year. 



Miscellaneous. — According to a recent note in Science, an association of the 

 employees of the various public and private experiment stations in the Dutch 

 East Indies was organized in connection with the eighth meeting of the techni- 

 cal personnel of these stations and the Department of Agriculture, held at 

 Medan, Deli, Sumatra, April 23-26, 1919. 



J. B. Knight, professor of agriculture in the Poona Agricultural College, 

 India, has been appointed principal vice Dr. II. H. Mann, now acting director 

 of agriculture for Bombay. * 



The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia has awarded its Edward Longstreth 

 Medal of Merit to Dr. J. J. Skinner of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, for a paper entitled Soil Aldehydes. 



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