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eiulorsing the action of this Department in the appointment of a committee to 

 inqnire into the prt^sent statns of veterinary education in this country. 



American Home Economics Association Proposed. — The initial number of a 

 trial series of quarterly bulletins being issued by the Lake Placid Conference 

 on Home Economics announces the appointment at the July meeting of the con- 

 ference of a committee, of v.hich Dr. C. F. Langworthy of this Office is chair- 

 man, to formulate a plan of organization for a national association of those 

 engaged in .the solution of lionio and home economics problems. This committee 

 is to rei)ort to the teaching section of the conference at a meeting to be held in 

 Washington, D. C, during the Christmas recess, at which time the question of 

 a national oi-ganization will be discussed. 



New Journals. — Zeitschrip, -fur den Aushaii der Enhvicklungslchre, a monthly 

 devoted to the critical discussion of problems in zoology, botany, physiology, 

 psychology, paleontology, biochemistry, and iihilosophy in their relations to 

 evolution, is being issued at Stuttgart, with R. H. France as editor. 



Trudiii Bijiiro po Prlkladiiol Botanikije is being issued at St. Petersburg by 

 the Bureau of Applied Botany as a bimonthly. The initial number contains 

 articles in both the lUissian and German languages, including papers on Smooth- 

 Awned Barley and Directions for Uniform Sowing of Different Kinds of Grain 

 for Comparative Botanical Investigations. 



Fazendeiro, a monthly review of agriculture, industry, and commerce with 

 sjiecial reference to coffee growing, has been established at Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

 A recent number contains a brief account of a proposed reorganization in the 

 Louis Queiros School of Agriculture, of which C. D. Smith, formerly of the 

 Michigan College and Station, is now director. 



Annals of tJic Entomological Sovictij of America is being published quarterly 

 by the society, with Herbert Osborn as managing editor. An announcement 

 in the initial number states that "the scope of the Annals will l)e as broad as 

 the interests of the society which it represents, but it may not be out of place 

 to emphasize the point that papers dealing with morphologic, faunistic, and 

 ))iologic problems, as well as toxonomy in its broadest sense, will be especially 

 welcome." In addition to data as to the constitution, membership, and 

 proceedings of the society, the initial number also contains Notes on Chalcid 

 Infesting Apple Seed, Polymorphism of Ants, and The Habits of Insects as a 

 Factor in Classification. 



Miscellaneous. — F. H. A. Marshall has been appointed to the recently estab- 

 lished university lectureship in agricultural physiology in Cambridge University. 



The retirement of J. H. Hart, superintendent of the Botanical Department 

 of Trinidad, is announced after 34 years" service in the Tropics. 



Dr. Francis Huntington Snow, formerly chancellor of the University of Kansas 

 and well known as an entomologist, died at Bellefield, Wis., September 20. 



Hermann Settegast died in Berlin August 11 at the age of 90. Among his 

 extensive agricultural writings were Tierzucht (18G8. fifth edition 1888), Die 

 Landwirtschaft und ihr Betrieb (187.5, third edition 1884), Die deutsche Land- 

 wirtschaft vom kulturhistorischen Standpunkt (1884), Der Idealismus and 

 die deutsche Landwirtschaft (1885), and Die deutsche Viehzucht, ihr Werden, 

 Wachsen und gegenwiirtiger Standpunkt (1890). 



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