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room 58 by 28 feet is available, together with a smaller laboratory, an experi- 

 mental field with greenhouses, etc. Dr. A. D. Imms, formerly forest entomolo- 

 gist of the government of India, has been appointed first reader in agricultural 

 entomology and will conduct researches and supervise the work of research 

 students. 



First Horticultural School for Women in France. — The first horticultural school 

 for women in France, a higher school of horticulture for young women, was 

 opened in the latter part of 1913 at Brie-Comte-Robert, near Paris, under the 

 auspices of the Union for the Agricultural and Horticultural Instruction of 

 Women. 



Farm Women's Clubs in France. — The minister of agriculture of France has 

 issued a circular addressed to the directors of the departmental agricultural 

 services authorizing them to organize farm women's clubs in as many commu- 

 nities as possible, for the promotion and dissemination of instruction in home 

 economics and agriculture. These clubs are to supplement the instruction given 

 in the 3 months' courses of the home economics schools now operating in France 

 and in the post-scholastic home economics schools, to aid former students of 

 these schools to perfect their studies and to give women in general an oppor- 

 tunity to procure a professional domestic knowledge. 



The clubs of each department are to be federated and these departmental fed- 

 erations combined into a national federation of farm women's clubs, to be 

 administered by a central committee at the seat of the ministry of agriculture. 



Pomological Experiment Station in South Russia. — A new experiment station 

 for pomology known as the Salghir Station has recently been established in the 

 Crimea in South Russia in the town of Simpheropol. The director of the sta- 

 tion is S, Mokshetsky, entomologist. The station is anxious to enter into rela- 

 tions with the pomological and horticultural institutions of the United States. 



Proposed Agricultural College in Ceylon. — Plans are being made for the estab- 

 lishment of a Tropical Agricultural College on the grounds of the Gangaroowa 

 Experimental Station, where a tract of 400 acres is available. It is estimated 

 that the main college building and equipment and quarters for the staff and 

 students will cost from 300,000 to 400,000 rupees ($97,300 to $129,770.) It is 

 expected that the staff of the Ceylon Department of Agi'iculture will be avail- 

 able for a portion of the instruction work, but that a botanist will also be 

 needed. 



Miscellaneous. — The American Phytopathological Society has elected officers 

 for 1914 as follows : President, Dr. Haven Metcalf of Washington, D. C. ; vice- 

 president, Dr. F. D. Kern of State College, Pa. ; and counsellor, H. R. Fulton of 

 West Raleigh, N. C. 



An association of economic entomologists has been formed in Germany and 

 held its first meeting at Magdeburg the latter part of October, 1913. Dr. L. 0. 

 Howard was elected an honorary member. 



The National Geographic Society has awarded a medal in honor of the late 

 Prof. F. H. King, of the University of Wisconsin, for his well-known work on 

 Chinese agriculture. 



Dr. Shosuke Sato, professor and dean of the college of agriculture of Tohoku 

 University, has been designated as the exchange professor of Japan to Ameri- 

 can universities for 1914. 



The Second Annual Conference of Editors of Agricultural Colleges and Ex- 

 periment Stations will be held at the State University of Kentucky June 25 

 and 26. 



