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M. E. Jahr has been appointed assistant in soils in tlio college and B. D. 

 Leitli assistant in agronomy in the college and station. 



Wyoming Station. — A new barn for the agronomy farm has just been com- 

 pleted at a cost of about $3,500. This barn will be primarily a horse barn, 

 with a large room for the storing of station machinery. 



It has been proved definitely that the woody aster is a poisonous plant. The 

 losses from it throughout Wyoming have been very great, being estimated at 

 $30,000 for sheep at Medicine Bow alone in 1909. 



American Association for the Advancement of Science. — The sixty-second 

 annual meeting of this association and its affiliated societies was held at 

 Minneapolis, December 28-31, 1910, in the buildings of the University of Minne- 

 sota. The officers elected for 1911 are as follows: President, C. E. Bessey, 

 University of Nebraska ; general secretary, J. Zeleny. University of Minnesota ; 

 and general secretary of the coinicil, T. S. Palmer, of the Bureau of Biological 

 Survey of this Department. The next meeting place will be Washington, D. C. 



The American Chemical Society had the largest representation of any indi- 

 vidual society at the meeting, A notable feature of this session was the first 

 meeting of a section of biological chemistry, under the chairmanship of C. L. 

 Alsberg and I. K. Phelps, of this Department, and with an unusually large 

 number of papers. A. Smith, of tlie University of Chicago, was elected presi- 

 dent for the ensuing year, the secretary and the treasurer being reelected. Its 

 next meeting will be held at Indianapolis, Ind. 



Among the other oi-ganizatious represented, the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists elected for its president F. L. Washburn of the 

 Minnesota University and Station; vice presidents, E. D. Ball, of the Utah 

 College and Station, and R. II. Pettit, of the Michigan College and Station; and 

 secretary, A. F. Burgess, of the Bureau of Entomology of this Department. The 

 American Association of Horticultural Inspectors formed a permanent organiza- 

 tion, with the following officers: President, F. Sherman, jr., of the North Caro- 

 lina State Station ; vice president, T. J. Headlee, of the Kansas College and 

 Station ; and secretary-treasurer, T. B. Symous, of the Maryland College and 

 Station. The American Phyto-Pathological Society, at its second annual meet- 

 ing, elected for president A. D. Selby. of the Ohio Station ; vice president, R. A. 

 Harper, University of Wisconsin ; and secretary-treasurer, C. L. Shear, of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. 



American Home Economics Association. — Tlie third annual meeting of this 

 association was held at St. Louis, December 27-30, 1910, in conjunction with 

 the American Sociological Society, American Economic Association, American 

 Political Science Association, American Association for Labor Legislation, ami 

 American Statistical Association, Its program in consequence gave special 

 emphasis to the economic and sociological phases related to home economics, 

 but there was also a long list of scientific papers, particularly in the field of 

 dietetics and nutrition, where 15 papers were offered. There was also a session 

 devoted to courses of instruction in home economics and on extension work as 

 carried on by colleges of agriculture. 



Among the officers elected were the following: Honorary president. Mrs. Ellen 

 H. Richards, JNIassachusetts Institute of Technology ; vice presidents. Dr. C. F. 

 Langworthy of this Office, Mrs. Mary Schenk Woolman of Teachers College, 

 Columbia University, and Miss Martha Van Rensselaer of Cornell University, 

 and secretary-treasurer. Dr. Benjamin R. Andrews of Teachers College. 



The International Agrogeologieal Congress of Stockholm. — The widespread 

 revival of interest in the matter of securing uniformity of methods of soil 

 investigation is shown by the organization of the International Agrogeological 



