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Congress, the first meeting of wliicli was held at Budapest in 1909 and the 

 second in connection with the International Geological Congress at Stockholm 

 in 1910. 



According to an account in Nature the Stockholm meeting was attended by 

 over 160 members. There was an interesting exhibition of soil maps, appa- 

 ratus, and typical soils. 



Among the more important papers presented were the presidential address on 

 Swedish Soil Types and Their Distribution, by Gunnar Andersson (Sweden) ; 

 The Mechanical Analysis of Soils, by A. Atterberg (Sweden) ; Mechanical Soil 

 Analysis, by P. Vinassa de Regny (Italy) ; The Importance of Colloids in Soils, 

 by E. Ramann (Germany) ; The Colloid Substances in Soils and Their Deter- 

 mination, by D. J. Hissink (Holland) ; Netherlands Diluvial Loam, by G. H. 

 Ijeopold (Holland) ; The Physiological Function of the Plant Foods of the Soil 

 and Their Relative Proportion, by D. Dicenty (Hungary) ; On the Preparation 

 of Soil Solutions for Chemical Analysis, by A. von Sigmond (Hungary) ; The 

 Determination of the Assimilable Plant Food in the Soil, by A. Riudell (Fin- 

 land) ; The Preparation of Soil Extracts for Chemical Analysis, by A. Vester- 

 berg (Sweden) ; New Principles of Soil Investigation, by A. Atterberg (Sweden) ; 

 Agrogeological Investigations in Finland, by B. Frosterus (Finland) ; The Pur- 

 pose and Fundamental Principles of Soil Classification, by E. W. Hilgard and 

 R. H. Loughridge (California) ; The Nomenclature and the Classification of 

 Soil Types, by B. de Inkey (Hungary) ; The Chemical Analysis of Moor Soils in 

 Their Valuation for Culture Purposes, by H. von Feilitzen (Sweden) ; Botan- 

 ical-Geological Investigations of the Swedish Moor Culture Society, by E. Hag- 

 lund (Sweden) ; A Climatic Zone Soil Map for Croatia-Slavouia, by K. Gorja- 

 novic-Kramberger (Hungary) ; Plant Food, Especially Phosphoric Acid and 

 Nitrogen, in Acid Soils and Their Determination, by M. Weibull (Sweden) ; 

 Some Methods of Analysis in »Soil Investigations, by A. Vesterbei'g (Sweden) ; 

 Some Notes on the Mechanical Analysis of Soils, Especially of Those of Arid 

 Regions, by W. Beam (Egypt) ; The Study of Soils in Egypt, by W. F. Hume 

 (Egypt) ; Nomenclature and Classification of Soils, by P. Kossovich (Russia) ; 

 Systematic Soil Surveying, by K. O. Bjiirlykke (Norway) ; and Systematic Soil 

 Surveying, by F. Sandor (Hungary). 



Abstracts of several of these papers will be found in this number of the 

 Record. The papers emphasized especially the lack of uniformity in methods 

 of examination and classification of soils, stress being laid uinni the chemical, 

 physical, and physiological relations rather than on the geological relations of 

 soils. The next meeting of the Congress is to be held in St. Petersburg in 1014. 



Agriculture at Southern Educational Association. — At the convention of the 

 Southern Educational Association in Chattanooga, December 27-29, considerable 

 attention was given at both general and special sessions to the ditferent phases 

 of agricultural education. Representing this Department, Assistant Secretary 

 W. M. Plays gave an illustrated address on A^ocational Education, Dr. A. C. 

 True read a paper on Correlating the Work in Agricultural Education, Dr. S. A. 

 Knapp gave an address on Our Losses or What We Might Have Had, and D. J. 

 Crosby gave an illustrated talk on Community Work in Rural High Schools. 



Dean Russell, of the University of Wisconsin, spoke at one of the evening 

 sessions and showed lantern views to illustrate the Value of Demonstration 

 Methods in the Agricultural Education of the Rural Population, J. F. Duggar 

 read papers on Preparing Teachers to Give Instruction in Agriculture and 

 Courses in Agriculture Adapted to High Schools, and P. H. Rolfs discussed 

 Technical Education, our Greatest Need. There were also several other papers 

 and discussions of this nature in the departments of higher technical education, 

 secondary education, superintendence, and secondary industrial education. 



