700 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



cultural colleges, agricultux'al societies, and other agricultural research or- 

 ganizations of England, Scotland, and Wales. It is planned to group these 

 abstracts so far as possible by subjects, the September number reporting 

 experiments with cereals and the October number experiments conducted dur- 

 ing the last 2 years with root crops. 



Chemiker Zeitung. — Attention is called to the fact that beginning with the 

 thirty-third year, this journal of scientific, industrial, and commercial chemistry 

 will be issued three times a week instead of semiweekly as heretofore. This 

 has been rendered necessary by the rapid accumulation of information bearing 

 upon the relation of science to industry, no small feature of which, as shown 

 by the pages of the Chemiker Zeitung, is due to the application of chemical 

 science to agriculture. 



Miscellaneous. — Dr. G. Karsteu, custodian of the Botanic Garden at Bonn, has 

 been chosen as successor to the late Dr. F. Noll, Director of the Botanic Garden 

 and Institute of Halle. 



About 1,200 persons attended the lectures and discussions offered during 

 farmers' week, January 25-30, at the St. Lawrence School of Agriculture, 

 Canton, N. Y. 



The Tenth International Conference of Sheep Breeders will be held June 21 

 in Gloucester, England. The subject for discussion. How Can We Improve the 

 Sheep Industry? will be opened by George McKerrow, of Wisconsin. 



The New York Botanical Garden has begun the issuing of a mycological 

 journal to which the name Mycologia is given, volume 1, No. 1 appearing in 

 January, 1909. It is issued under the editorship of W. A. Murrill, with a staff 

 of associate editors, and is in continuation of the Journal of Mycology, pub- 

 lished by the late Dr. W. A. Kellerman. The first number contains papers on 

 Illustrations of Fungi, The Boletacefe of North America, Notes on North Ameri- 

 can Hypocreales, A Bacterial Disease of the Peach, and The Problems of North 

 American Lichenology. 



Sir Daniel Morris, who retired from the office of Commissioner of the Impe- 

 rial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies on November 30, 190S, has 

 been appointed to the newly created office of scientific adviser to the Secretary 

 of State for the Colonies in matters pertaining to agriculture in the British 

 tropical possessions. Sir Daniel Morris organized the Department of Agricul- 

 ture of the West Indies in 1S9S, utilizing for. this purpose the various educa- 

 tional agencies already in existence in the islands, but also introducing and 

 training a number of young university science graduates in the work of the 

 department. Among the most notable of the achievements of the department 

 under his administration were the inauguration and holding of annual or bien- 

 nial conferences and the reestablishment of the cotton industry, which had 

 almost been extinct in the West Indies for about 100 years. The honor of 

 knighthood was conferred upon him in 1903 in recognition of his valuable 

 services as commissioner of agriculture. 



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