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tion with the station in supervision of some of the experimental work. Other 

 appointments inchide R. R. Snapp (University of Illinois 1913) as assistant in- 

 structor in animal husb;indry and assistant in animal husbandry in the station, 

 effective July 1; H. I.. Crane (West Virginia University 1914) as instructor in 

 horticulture and assistant horticulturist, effective July 1; and Henry Dorsey 

 (West Virginia University 1914) as instructor in agronomy and assistant 

 agronomist. 



Secondary Instruction in Agriculture. — An agricultural section of the Central 

 Association of Science and Mathematics Teacliers is to be estjiblished for liigh 

 school teachers and otliers interested in secondary instruction in agriculture. A 

 committee consisting of A. W. Nolan, K. L. Hatch, George D. Works, W. II. 

 French, and I. A. Madden, has been appointed to prepare the program and 

 take charge of the selection of officers for the first meeting of the section, to 

 be held in Chicago on November 27 and 28. Among the questions to be dis- 

 cussed at this meeting are (1) the course of study in secondary agriculture, 

 (2) extension work in secondary agriculture, (3) use of land in connection 

 with school agriculture, (4) relation of the high school biological and physical 

 sciences to agriculture, and (5) should emphasis be place<l upon a two-year high 

 school vocational course in agriculture, or ui)oii a longer and more general 

 course, or upon a course leading to college work? 



Russian Agricultural Budget. — The 1914 budget contains an estimated expendi- 

 ture for agricultural purposes of fl6,G38.G0O, an increase of f2,335,;j00 over 1913. 

 The largest item is that of £5,300,000 for land organization and agricultural 

 industries, which includes the maintenance of experimental and demonstration 

 agencies, general measures for the development and improvement of various 

 agricultural industries, including forestry, and assistance to pea.sants in dis- 

 tricts under land organization. An allotment of £1,178,700 is estimated for 

 drainage, irrigation, and peat cutting. The allotments for agricultural educa- 

 tion and horse breeding are largely increased. 



Promotion of Agriculture in Palestine. — The General Council for the Province 

 of Palestine at its recent session ap[)ropriated $1,82G to establish a breeding 

 farm for horses and donkeys; $13,200 for the establishment of an agricultural 

 school and the transfer of the model farms from Artoof to Sajed and from 

 Jaffa to Hebron ; and $2,640 for the purchase of agricultural implements. 



New Journals. — A new publication. The Annals of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, made its appearance in March. The publication is to be issued quar- 

 terly and will contain scientific contributions of members of the staff of the 

 garden, from the Shaw School of Botany, and from visiting botanists working 

 in the garden. It will take the place of the scientific papers formerly pub- 

 lished in the annual report of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the more 

 popular portion of the report will be published in the Missouri Monthly 

 Botanical Garden Bulletin. The annual report will be discontinued. 



The American Journal of Botany has recently made its appearance. This 

 new .lournal is edited by a joint committee of the Botanical Society of America, 

 and is published by cooperative arrangement between the Botiinical Society of 

 America and the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. 



Insecutor Inscitia; Mcnstruus is a montJily journal of entomology conducted 

 by Harrison G. Dyar, Ph. D., and established in memory of Augustus Radcliffe 

 Gi-ote. It will deal especially with descriptions of species and genera, life 

 histories, and similar material. The initial number is made up of notes on 

 cotton moths by Dr. Dyar. 



The division of agricultural education of the depjirtment of agriculture in 

 the University of Minnesota has begun the monthly publication of The Visitor, 



