500 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



agement and farm practice, botany, entomology, bacteriology and plant pathol- 

 ogy, advanced science methods, and chemistry. The purpose of the courses 

 is to train teachers for high school work in agriculture under the New York 

 state law giving state aid to schools organizing departments of agriculture, 

 home economics, and manual training. 



National Corn Exposition. — The exposition held at Columbus, Ohio, January 30 

 to February 11, was distinctly a national event. Selected exhibits of corn from 

 state corn shows were in competition from 35 States, and there were also 

 extensive educational exhibits from this Department and 2.5 experiment stations, 

 and of agricultural machinery, cereal food products, and dairy equipment. 

 Daily programs of lectures, demonstrations, and conferences, addressed by 

 speakers of national reputation, were held and special days were set apart, such 

 as Ii\e stock day, a national dairy day, a conservation day, and a 4-day rural 

 life conference. The American Breeders' Association held its annual meeting 

 during the exposition. 



Miscellaneous. — Dr. Pehr Olsson-Seffer, director of the Tezonapa Botanical 

 Station, has been appointed professor of botany at the National University of 

 Mexico. Lectures will be given on the history of botany, evolution of plants, 

 and ecological plant geology, and courses in plant physiology will be continued 

 at the Tezonapa Botanical Station. Dr. Olsson-Seffer has also recently accepted 

 the position of government botanist, in charge of the botanical section of the 

 Mexican Department of Agriculture and of the bureau of forestry. 



A recent number of Revue Horticole states that the Royal College of Science 

 and Technology, London, decided recently to establish a chair of vegetable 

 physiology and pathology and has called Prof. Frederic Czapek, of the Univer- 

 sity of Prague, to the position. 



By the will of Sir Francis Gallon, who died January 17 at the age of 8S years, 

 his residuary estate, valued at about $180,000, has been bequeathed to the Uni- 

 versity of London for the establishment of a Gallon Professorship of Eugenics. 

 The desire is expressed in the will that Pi'of. Karl Pearson be offered the 

 position. 



A recent number of the Deutsche Landicirtsehafilichc Zeitung states that 

 Dr. Kurt Teichert, for 4 years director of the Dairy Institute at Memmingen, 

 Las accepted the directorship of the Wiirtemberg Institute for Experimentation 

 and Instruction in Cheese Making at Wangen, Allgiiu, which is to be opened 

 June 1. 



Dr. Wilhelm Wagner, teacher of agriculture in the Agricultural Winter 

 School, Zerbst, Germany, has accepted the position of agricultural lecturer at 

 the German-Chinese College, Tsingtau, Kiaochow. 



The Wiener LandwirtschapUche Zeitung of January 18 states that on Jan- 

 uary 9 Dr. Joseph Ritter v. Popp was succeeded as royal imperial minister of 

 agriculture of Austria, by Adalbert Freih. v. Widmann. 



A recent number of the Kcw Bulletin announces that F. C. McClellan, of 

 Kew, has been appointed director of agriculture in Zanzibar, to succeed R. N. 

 Lyne, who has been appointed director of agriculture in Mozambique. 



Dr. E. J. Butler has been appointed director of the Agricultural Research In- 

 stitute and College of Pusa, vice Bernard Coventry now inspector general of 

 agriculture in India. 



Di-. Theobald Smith, of Harvard University, has been appointed to the 

 Referee Board of Consulting Scientific Experts of this Department with refer- 

 ence to the Food and Drugs Law of 1906, vice Dr. C. A. Herter, deceased. 



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