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biennes des Aniniaux, which was i)ul)lish('(i in (•(Hijunctidii with Professor Lt'claiiiche 

 and Ih perhaps the best work of its kind in existence. 



Frederick Law Olmsted, celebrated American landscape architect, died at a sani- 

 tarium near his home in Brookline, Mass., August 28, aged 81 years. Mr. Olmsted 

 established a new school of landscape architecture in America and did more to stim- 

 ulate interest in it as an art and to influence its development than any other American. 

 His name is associated with the development of more large park systems in this coun- 

 try than that of any other landscape architect. In cooperation with his i)artners he 

 designed the public parks of New York City, Brooklyn, Boston, 3Ionti-eal, Buffalo, 

 and South Chicago; the Golden Gate Park at San Francisco, Niagara Falls Reserva- 

 tion, the World's Fair Grounds at Chicago, the U. S. Capitol Grounds and back ter- 

 race, the Biltmore Estate of G. W. Vanderbilt, and many other public and private 

 parks. He was also the author of several books through which he first became 

 known to the public. Among the more prominent of these are Walks and Talks of 

 an American Farmer, A Journey through Texas, Our Seaboard Slave States, and A 

 Journey to the Back Country. Mr. Olmsted retired from the active practice of his 

 profession about 8 years ago, since which time the business has been carried on by 

 John L. and F. L. Olmsted, Jr. 



We note from Science that Ernest Menault, inspector-general of agriculture in France, 

 and the author of numerous works on agriculture and economic entomology, has 

 died at the age of 72 years. 



Personal Mention. — Clarence T. Johnston, ■ for several years past assistant m the 

 Irrigation Investigations of this Office and in charge of the office at Cheyenne, Wyo., 

 has resigned to accept the appointment of State Irrigation Engineer of Wyoming. 



Clarence B. Lane, assistant in dairy husbandry at the New Jersey Station, has 

 been appointed assistant chief of the Dairy Division of this Department. He suc- 

 ceeds Harry Hayward, who, as previously noted, resigned during the summer to 

 assume charge (jf the newly organized agricultural department at the Mount Hermon 

 School, near Northfield, Mass. 



Charles V. Piper, of the Washington College and Station, has accepted an appoint- 

 ment as botanist in the Division of Agrostology in this Department, and will also 

 have charge of the herbarium of grasses. 



Alfred M. Sanchez, an assistant in the Bureau of Soils, has been appointed in the 

 Bureau of Agriculture of the Philippines, where he will continue the soil investiga- 

 tions carried on last year by C. W. Dorsey. 



Dr. David ]\lorris. Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture for the West Indies, has 

 been appointed by King Edward to he Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished 

 Order of St. INIichael and St. George. 



Miscellaneous. — The Association of Official Agricultural Chemists will meet in Wash- 

 ington, November 20-23, innnediately following the meeting of the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. The meetings of the 

 chemists will be held in the lecture hall of Columbian University. The programme 

 calls for reports of referees on food adulteration, dairy products, foods and feeding 

 stuffs, sugar, nitrogen, potash, phosphoric acid, soils, ash, tannin, and insecticides, 

 and of special committees on food standards and fertilizer legislation. 



The Walnut ( irowers' Association of Southern California has offered an award of 

 $20,000 for a practical means of controlling the disease known as walnut blight or 

 bacteriosis. 



The report of the Irrigation Commission of India recommends the expenditure of 

 $150,000,000 in 20 years on protective works, and $2,000,000 annually on loans for 

 private irrigation work. The necessary funds are to be raised by loans and the inter- 

 est charged to the famine grant. 



The estate and garden of the late G. F. Wilson, near Woking, England, has been 

 purchased by Sir Thomas Hanbury and presented to the Royal Horticultural Society. 



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