500 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



GovernmGnt relating to agriculture, memoirs and origimil articles, translations, 

 reprints, statistics, and notices relating to botli Brazilian and foreign agricul- 

 ture. The ministry is also issuing a monthly entitled SuperintGndcncia da 

 Defesa da Borraclia, which contains announcements, statistics, notes, and re- 

 lated matter of interest to the rubber industry. 



The American Home Economics Association has established in the Journal 

 of Home Economics a Housekeepers' Department. This is designed to bring 

 to the housel^eeper's attention progress made in the laboratory and elsewhere in 

 matters pertaining to food and other home problems, and to interpret for her 

 guidance the results of research. 



A quarterly Journal of the Amei'ican Society of Agronomy has replaced the 

 annual Proceedings of the Society. It will contain technical papers of some 

 length, brief articles, and personal and scientific notes and news items. 



The Veterinary Alumni Quarterly is being published by the Veterinary 

 Alumni Association of the Ohio State University. The initial numbers contain 

 several original articles along veterinary lines. 



The Mississippi Agricultural Student is a new quarterly devoted to the ad- 

 vancement of agricultural education, and published by the School of Agriculture 

 of the Mississippi College. 



The British Ecological Society has established The Journal of Ecology as its 

 official organ, to include general articles, reviews of current work, notes, 

 bibliographies, etc. 



Mitteilungen der Landwirtschaftlichen Lehrkanzeln der k. k. Hochschule 

 fUr Bodenkultur is being published in Vienna, and contains original articles 

 from this and other institutions. 



Zeitschrift fiir Pfianzenziichtung, a joint organ of the German and Austrian 

 Societies for the Promotion of Plant Breeding, is being published in Berlin. 

 It contains original articles, abstracts, notes, etc. 



Miscellaneous. — A large bequest, stated at $1,250,000, is announced in the will 

 of the late W. Gibson of London and Belfast to institute a scheme for pro- 

 viding sons of farmers in Down and Antrim counties, Ireland, with educational 

 advantages. No further details are as yet available. 



Dr. G. Ruhland, secretary of the International Agricultural Union, and well 

 known for his writings on agricultural economics, notably those relating to the 

 marketing of cereals and agricultural credit, died January 5 at the age of 54 

 years. 



Julius Lenkowitsch, author of the v/ell-known treatise on Chemical Tech- 

 nology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes and other works died September 

 16, 1913, at the age of 56 years. 



Science announces a gift of $30,000 by Mrs. Russell Sage to the Joseph Slo- 

 cum Agricultural College of Syracuse University. 



L. G. Sutton has contributed $5,000 toward the fund for buildings and 

 laboratories for agricultural and other departments at University College, 

 Reading. 



