532 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



entrios are given under foods, dairy i)rodnets, meat, wine, water, l)aeteriolofry, 

 iiv^'iene, animal (lineasefj, innnunity,(lisinfectants, etc. 



Miscellaneous. — Press reports state tliat Dr. C. W. Dabney has resigned as jiresident 

 of the University of Tennessee, to accept the presidency of the University of Cincin- 

 nati. The resignation is effective September 1 next. His acceptance is stated to be 

 conditioned on an income of $250,000 i)er annum for the Cincinnati institution. 



Since tlie retirement of Prof. W. II. Brewer no i)rovision has been made for carry- 

 ing on the course in agriculture at the Sheffield Scientific School, which was form- 

 erly in his charge, and the covirse has now been discontinued. 



A note in Science, taken from the London Times, states that the late Charles Seale- 

 Hayne, M. P., has, under liis will, provided for the establishment of a College of 

 Science, Art, and ^Agriculture in the neighborhood of Newton Abbot, open to stu- 

 dents of the county of Devon. Details will be left to the executors. It is thought 

 that about £150,000 will be handed over for the college. 



The German Government has under consideration a project for the establishment 

 of a von Behring Institute modeled after the Pasteur Institute in Paris. The princi- 

 pal objects of the new institute will be the promotion of research in serum therapy 

 and the preparation of sera of various kinds. 



The Board of Agriculture of Great Britain has made arrangements for the exami- 

 nation of ap2)aratus used in the Lister-Gerber and other similar milk tests. This serv- 

 ice is rendered by the National Physical Laboratory, which has adopted a scale of 

 fees for test bottles, pii)ettes, and measuring glasses, only one-half the full fee being 

 charged for apparatus which is found to be below the standard. Apparatus found 

 to be accurately graduated is marked with the monogram of the laboratory. 



At the recent Apple Congress held in St. Louis a resolution was adopted which 

 favored the making of all apple barrels 17^ inches in diameter at the head, with 

 staves 285 inches in length, and the barrel to hold 3 bushels. Bushel boxes were 

 recommended to be 11 5 by 11 J by 20 inches on the inside. This makes a box con- 

 taining 2,645 cubic inches, whereas the present box used for apples contains but 

 2,150 cubic inches, approximately the legal bushel. 



The revenue acts of Great Britain have been modified so as to exclude from duty 

 molasses imported into the country to be used exclusively for feeding stock. An 

 allowance of one shilling per hundredweight is also made to refiners on molasses 

 produced in Great Britain from sugar on which import duty has been paid, if the 

 molasses is to be used as stock food. 



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