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Attorney-General, Hon. J. de Villiers, who described it as an epoch-making 

 event. Other veterinary conferences have been held in British South Africa, 

 but this is the first that has included delegates from other than British posses- 

 sions. Representatives were present from Congo, Madagascar, Basutoland, Ger- 

 man West Africa, Mozambique, Rhodesia, Natal Swaziland, Cape Colony, 

 Bechuanaland, and the Transvaal, thus including South Africa nearly to the 

 Equator. 



Among the important questions considered were the veterinary laws in regard 

 to stock diseases (including Bast coast fever, glanders, tuberculosis, lung sick- 

 ness, rabies, epizootic Ijmphangitis, scab, and trypanosome affections), meat 

 inspection, and veterinary surveys. Many resolutions were formulated to be 

 submitted to the various African governments, and a subcommittee was ap- 

 pointed consisting of representatives of 6 colonies or states for the purpose of 

 suggesting uniform regulations against animal diseases for the whole of Africa. 

 Recommendations were also drafted in regard to veterinary surveys, with a 

 view to protect the colonies from various vudiuown diseases from the interior. 

 The importance of this conference is especially great, as the manj' contagious 

 animal diseases have greatly crippled the agriculture of the colonies. 



Innes Bequest to Horticultural Instruction and Research. — The Gardeners' 

 Chronicle recently gave full details of a bequest made by the late John Innes, 

 which bids fair to prove of lasting benefit to British horticulture. Under the 

 terms of this bequest, a body of trustees is to administer a sum approximating 

 £10,000 a year for the purposes of establishing and maintaining an institution 

 to be known as the " John Innes Horticultural Institution," and which is to 

 have for its object the promotion of horticultural instruction and research. 

 The direct management of the institution, and such other matters as the trustees 

 may determine, devolves upon a council of twelve persons, of whom the three 

 trustees are ex-officio members, and the remainder selected from specified socie- 

 ties and universities in England. The house and a portion of the grounds of 

 Manor Farm, Merton, England, have been bestowed for the purposes of the insti- 

 tution and for the establishment of a horticultural station which is to be effi- 

 ciently equipped, including the provision of buildings and lecture I'ooms. The 

 trustees are further empowered to establish and equip similar stations in other 

 parts of the country or assist in such work. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle points out the opportunity thus afforded for the 

 development of a horticultural imiversity, in which research and advanced 

 teaching are the primary objects, and deprecates any possibility of the insti- 

 tution's becoming perverted into a school of elementary iustruction. 



Apicultural Station in Ontario. — A recent number of Gleanings in Bee Cul- 

 ture announces that an apicultural station is to be established under govern- 

 ment auspices at Jordon, Ontario, where a fruit station is already in operation. 

 The object of the station is stated to be to conduct experiments in the fertiliza- 

 tion of flowers by bees, to carry on apicultural investigations, and to provide 

 courses of instruction in apiculture. 



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