400 EXPEEIMENT STATION RECORD. 



agriculturists." A 2-year course is provided the first year, including practical 

 and theoretical agriculture, elementary and soil physics, elementary chemistry, 

 biology, anatomy, and physiology, and farm mechanics. These subjects are 

 continued during the second year, with additional work in mycology, agri- 

 cultural engineering, veterinary science, and entomology. 



Miscellaneous. — Among the recent appointments for the faculty of the George 

 Peabody College for Teachers are Dr. J. L. Coulter as professor of rural eco- 

 nomics. Dr. K. O. Davis, formerly of Rutgers College, as professor of agricul- 

 ture, and William K. Tate, professor of elementary education at the University 

 of South Carolina, as professor of rural education. 



Prof. E. H. Starling has been awarded a medal by the Royal Society for 

 Researches in Physiology. Professor Starling, at the physiological laboratory 

 of the University College, London, has contributed many papers of interest to 

 students of nutrition and of animal physiology, including the results of extended 

 investigations on factors which determine the growth and activity of the mam- 

 mary glands. 



Plans are being prepared for new buildings at the Rothamsted Experiment 

 Station, to be erected in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Sir 

 John Lawes and Sir Henry Gilbert. Efforts are being made to raise .$30,000 

 from private contributions, a like amount being then available from the Devel- 

 opment Fund. 



The Southeastern Agricultural College, Wye, has been given $2,500 for the 

 extension of its research department. The Development Commission is recom- 

 mending a grant of $30,000 for the completion of the college buildings, w^hich are 

 being erected at the Fruit Research Station at Mailing, where 22 acres have been 

 purchased by the Kent County Council. 



An anonymous donor has pledged to the University of Leeds $50,000 for the 

 erection of an agricultural building. This will be utilized as the headquarters 

 of agricultural education and research in Yorkshire, but much of the experi- 

 mental work will be carried on at the Manor Farm, Garforth. 



Dr. Chas. Crowther, lecturer in agricultural chemistry, at Leeds University, 

 has been appointed professor and will have charge of experiments in animal 

 nutrition for which a grant has been made by the Development Commission. 



W. Lawrence Balls, botanist of the Egyptian Department of Agriculture, has 

 resigned and for the present will devote himself to working up unpublished data 

 on cotton accumulated since 1904. 



Under the Swedish budget for 1914, a total of £592,000 is allotted to agricul- 

 ture. This is an increase of £22,000 mainly for veterinary education and im- 

 proved roads. 



The enrollment in the school of agriculture of Cambridge University has now 

 reached 320. The extension of the buildings has been practically completed. 



A bequest of $25,000 was made by the late Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal 

 for the establishment of a chair of agriculture in the University of Aberdeen. 



A separate minister of agriculture has been provided in the Union of South 

 Africa, the first appointee being Hon. H. C. von Heerden. 



