NOTES. 899 



The .Tamiary mmiher is devoted largely to various pliases of school indus- 

 trial work. The topics are introduced with a note by O. W, Caldwell, of the 

 University of Chicago, who argues for the inclusion of elementary industrial 

 worli in the regular school courses rather than the establishment of distinctive 

 separate courses, because (1) efficiency in any line of industrial work requires 

 a good general foundation in many subjects of study; and (2) general indus- 

 trial education is needed to develop an understanding of the conditions of 

 workers in other lines. " Industrial education should exist to make more 

 efficient men and women. . . . We are in great danger of concluding that 

 industrial educatiini is for the work rather than for the worlver." The value 

 of poultry raising as a school occupation is illustrated by W. A. Baldwin, 

 principal of the State Normal School. Ilyannis. :Mass., and C. H. Robison, of 

 the State Normal School, Moutclair, N. J., suggests " urbindustrial " and 

 '• agrindustrial" or " rurindustrial" as convenient terms for distinguishing 

 the kind of industrial education i)roi)cr to city and rural conditions. 



Agricultural Legislation in Congress. — The principal agricultural legislation 

 enacted at the final session of the Sixtieth Congress was embodied in the act 

 making appropriations for this department, which is summarized elsewhere 

 in this issue. In the diplomatic and consular appropriation act an appropria- 

 tion of $4,S00 was continued for the payment of the annual quota of the T'uited 

 States for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture. By a clause 

 in the Indian appropriation act, the property of the Indian School at Morris. 

 .Minn., comprising 2!M) acres of land with buildings and equipment, was trans- 

 ferred to the State of Minnesota upon the condition that it be accepted by the 

 State prior to July 1, 1910, for maintenance as an agricultural school to which 

 Indian pupils are to be admitted without tuition and upon terms of equality 

 with white pupils. By another act the University of Idaho was empowered to 

 purchase 640 acres of land in the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation for use 

 as a biological station, an encampment ground, and a forestry station. A 

 joint resolution was passed authorizing the President of the United States to 

 extend an invitation to the International Congress of Applied Chemistry to hold 

 its eighth meeting in this country in 1912. 



New Journals. — Societe d'Etudes d'Agriculture Tropicale has established 

 as its monthly organ UAfjronomic Troiiicalr. The initial number contains arti- 

 cles dealing with the cotton situation, stock raising in the Congo, the witch's 

 brof)m disease of cacao, a list of German organizations engaged in the exploita- 

 tion and culture of rubber, and abstracts of publications dealing with tropical 

 agriculture and animal husbandry. 



La Tcrrc Vaudoisc is being issued as a semimonthly by the Vaudoise Society 

 of Agriculture and Viticulture, replacing Chronuiuv Af/ricolc dii Canton de 

 \'tiud and Itnllctin dr la t^ocirte Vaudoise d'A<ni<i(ltnrc rt dv Viticulture. 



ll'«.s.srr und Abionsscr is a semimonthly journal devoted chiefly to abstracts 

 of publications dealing with water supplies and the disjiosal of sewage and 

 factory wastes. An original article also appears in each number. 



I'onwna Journal of Entomology is being published as a quarterly by the 

 department of l)iology of Pomona College. The initial number contains articles 

 on Aphididie of Southern California and Notes on Coccida\ by E. O. Essig; The 

 Red Scale, by A. J. Cook; and Western Plant Louse Parasites, by C. F. Bak«'r. 



Fortsehritte der Clieinic. Phi/sik und iihi/sikalischrn Chcniic is being i»ublislied 



nthly ;is a new edition of I'lii/sih-iili.scli-clicniischen Cenlnilbhiltcfi. Dr. Hcr- 



iiiann Crossmann. of P.erliii. is editoi-. and the staff includes Dr. II. KajipiMi, of 

 .Icna, in charge of agricultural chemistry; Dr. F. Flirlich. of Berlin, in charge 

 of the chemistry of the agricultural industries; and Dr. lliibner, of Berlin, in 



