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with chemical and Ijotanical laboratories, and to each should be attached a farm for 

 agricultural and horticultural experiments. It is suggested that the number of the 

 experiment stations should be increased and the scope of the experiments extended; 

 that local bodies should be encouraged by grants to aid in conducting experiments on 

 lines prescribed by the department; that publicity should be given to the work of 

 the department, and results of practical interest should be comnmnicated through 

 leaflets printed in the vernacular; that further measures for the improvement of 

 agricultural stock should be taken by the State; and that the forest department 

 should be invited to cooperate with the agricultural department in the work of 

 experimenting with products likely to succeed in forest areas. 



New Horticultural and Agricultural Terms. — This subject is discussed by H. J. Web- 

 ber in a recent article in Science, who points out the need of a suitable term to apply 

 to plants which are propagated vegetatively by buds, grafts, cuttings, suckers, run- 

 ners, slips, bulbs, tubers, etc. "The plants grown from such vegetative parts are not 

 individuals in the ordinary sense, l)ut are simply transplanted parts of the same indi- 

 vidual, and in heredity and in all biological and physiological senses such plants are 

 the same individual." Last year he suggested the word "strace," a combination of 

 the words "strain" and "race," but he now recommends the term "clou," which he 

 lielieves to be better suited to the purpose. The generic term variety would then 

 include in cultivation groups known as "races," "strains," and "clons." He also 

 believes the phrase "transmitting power," as applied to the faculty which an indi- 

 vidual organism has of transmitting its individual ijeculiarities to its progeny, to be 

 preferable to "prepotency," which has several other meanings. 



Training of Rural Teachers. — The legislature of Michigan at its last session provided 

 for the estaljlishment of 10 county normal schools for the training of rural teachers 

 in that State. The first of these schools is to be established at Standish, Arenac 

 County. 



Personal Mention. — Prof. E. W. Hilgard, of the California University and Station, 

 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation as doctor of philosophy on 

 October 7. On that occasion he received from the University of Heidelberg a new 

 diploma reconferriug the title and giving a general summary of the scientific work 

 done by him, with the congratulations of the faculty. Professor Hilgard was also 

 l^resented with a congratulatory aildress from his colleagues of the University of 

 California. 



Frederick Law Olmsted has been appointed to the chair of landscape architecture 

 in Harvard University known as the Charles Eliot professorshiji, in honor of Presi- 

 dent Eliot's son. 



Otto Luebkert, Assistant Forester and Chief of the Division of Records of the Bureau 

 of Forestry, who has been connected with the forestry work of this Department for 

 the past 13 years, has resigned his position to engage in commercial lines. 



We note from Science that W. J. Palmer, a graduate of the Ontario Agricultural 

 College, has been appointed director of agricultui-e in the Orange River Colony at a 

 salary of .S6,000 per annum. 



H. Maxwell Lefroy has, according to Xadtre, been appointed entomologist to the 

 government of India, and will be stationed at Surat, in the Bombay Presidency, 

 pending the establishment of the permanent headquarters of the imperial agricul- 

 tural department now being organized under the orders of Lord Curzon. 



Prof. L. H. Uillier has been made director of the meteorological observatory at 

 Nantes. 



S. I. Kuwana, who recently spent several years in study in this country, has been 

 ajipointed entomologist at the Central Agricultural Experiment Station at Xishi- 

 gahara, near Tokyo. 



Prof. Julius Stoklasa, formerly director of the plant-physiological institute at 

 Prague, has been called to the technical high school at Vienna. 



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