800 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



devoted to the interests of agriculture, manual training, and home economics in 

 Minnesota high schools. 



AUgduer Monatschrift fiir Milchwirtschaft und Viehzucht is being published 

 as the official organ of the dafry union of Allgau in Wurttemberg, with Dr. 

 Kurt Teichert as editor. The initial number contains popular articles, reports 

 of meetings, notes, reviews, etc. 



Wiener TierdrztUche Monatschrift is being issued monthly in the interests 

 of both practical and scientific veterinary medicine. It will contain original 

 articles, abstracts, notes, etc. 



The Illinois State Horticultural Society is publishing Illinois Horticulture 

 as its official organ. Members of the staff of the Illinois University and Station 

 are among the contributors. 



Boletin de Basques, Pesca, i Caza is the first publication of the kind to 

 be issued in Chile. The subjects considered are treated chiefly in their in- 

 dustrial, commercial, and economic aspects. 



The Banker and Farmer is being published monthly by the Agricultural 

 Commission of the American Bankers' Association. The initial number deals 

 especially with agricultural credit and farm demonstration work. 



Bulletino uffidale della Associazione Orticola Professionale Italiana is a 

 monthly of which Dr. Gustavo Vagliasendi is editor. It is devoted largely 

 to official announcements and brief notes. 



The National Field is being published as a weekly at Atlanta, Ga., as the 

 official organ of the National Farmers' Union. 



The Agricultural Journal, printed in Chinese, is being issued by the Chinese 

 Department of Agriculture and Forestry. 



Agricultural Schools in Panama. — Two agricultural schools are to be estab- 

 lished in Panama. J. Rene Plot, agronomical engineer of Paris, has been 

 selected as director of one of the schools, which will be located near New 

 Gorgona. The government is also contemplating the establishment of an agri- 

 cultural experiment station. 



Miscellaneous. — The London Times announces that the trustees of the estate 

 of the late H. B. Noble of Douglas, Isle of Man, have decided to devote 

 $100,000 to the fostering of agriculture on that island. It is expected that a 

 board of agriculture will be established to administer the fund and addi- 

 tional moneys to be obtained from the island. 



The London School of Tropical Medicine has sent an expedition to China 

 to study the mode of dissemination of human diseases caused by trematode 

 parasities, and the relation of such diseases to those occurring in domestic 

 animals. 



An additional department of animal pathology has been established in the 

 Rockefeller Institute. Prof. Theobald Smith of Harvard University has been 

 placed in charge of the new work. 



F. W. Taylor, director of agriculture in the Philippine Islands, has re- 

 signed and will return to this country, and has been succeeded by H. T. Ed- 

 wards, the former vice-director. 



Dr. Otto May, honorary professor of agriculture at the Technical School of 

 Munich, has died at the age of 81 years. 



