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The officers elected for the ensuing year were O. F. Hunziker. of Purdue 

 University, president; W. J. Fraser, of the University of Illinois, vice-president; 

 and W. A. Stocking, jr., secretary-treasurer. 



New England Intercollegiate Judging Contests. — A stock judging contest was 

 recently held in connection with the Brockton (Mass.) fair in which teams par- 

 ticipated from the Massachusetts and New Hampshire colleges and the Maine 

 and Vermont universities. Fruit judging and fruit packing contests formed a 

 feature of the fruit show at Manchester. N. H., the institutions here represented 

 by teams of students being the Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire 

 colleges and the Maine University. The Massachusetts Agricultural College 

 team won first place in both contests at Manchester and in that at Brockton. 



Necrology. — Dr. David P. Penhallow, professor of botany at McGill University 

 since 18S3, died October 30 at the age of fifty-six years. He was a graduate 

 of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and one of the gi'oup from that 

 institution who helped to organize the Imperial College of Agriculture at Sap- 

 poro, Japan, about 1876. His botanical studies were especially devoted to the 

 anatomy of woods, both recent and fossil, on which subject he published many 

 papers and a work entitled Gymnosperms. which appeared in 1908. At the 

 time of his death he was president of the American Society of Naturalists and 

 vice-president of the American Society of Botanists. 



Jakob Maarten van Bemmelen, the distinguished Dutch agricultural chemist, 

 died November 3 at the age of eighty years. He had made many valuable 

 contributions to the knowledge of soils, especially those of Holland and the 

 Dutch Colonies. One of his most important works was Die Absorptions ver- 

 bindungen und das Absorptions vermogen des Ackererde, which appeared first 

 in Die Landwirtschaftlichcn Vcrsuch.s-Stationcn and forms an important chapter 

 in the collected work of the author on colloids and absorption which was pub- 

 lished at Dresden in 1910, under the title of Die Absorption, and makes a book 

 of over 550 pages. 



Prosper J. A. Berckmans, the well-known nurseryman and one of the pioneers 

 of American horticulture, died November 8 after a short illness, in his eighty- 

 first year. Although not a prolific writer, he was intimately connected with 

 the leading horticultural societies, both in this country and in Europe. He 

 had served for many years as president of the American Pomological Society, 

 and was considered an authority on pomology and ornamental horticulture. 



W. R. Fisher, assistant professor of forestry at Oxford University and a 

 frequent contributor to the literature of British forestry, died November 13. 

 His more prominent works are Forest Protection and Forest Utilization, which 

 constitute volumes four and five of Schlich's Manual of Forestry. 



Dr. M. Treub, director of the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg, Java, from 

 1880 to 1909, died October 3, 1910. Dr. Treub is known among plant physiolo- 

 gists for his discovery of hydrocyanic acid in Pangium edule, and the theory 

 of that substance as the first synthetic product in the formation of nitrogenous 

 materials in plants. 



A drinking fountain has been erected at the Central Experimental Farm at 

 Ottawa in memorj- of the late Dr. James Fletcher, foi'mer Dominion entomolo- 

 gist and botanist. 



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