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i;. K. Ewell, for s^everal years connected with the P>urean of Chemistry of this 

 ])i'|iartnient, and for tiie i)ast year in charge of the Atlanta oftice of the (ierman 

 KaH Works, died in New Orleans February 7. 



Director E. B. \'oorhees, of the New Jersey Stations, has been appointed president 

 of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture. 



W. B. ^Madison, of the National Farm School at Doylestown, Pa., goes March 1 to 

 the Mount llennon School, near Northfield, Mass., as horticulturist. 



Prof. Pierre ]\Iouillefert, professor of horticulture and forestry at the National 

 Agricultural School of Grignon, France, died December 26, 1903. He had been con- 

 nected with the institution since 1864, as student and assistant, and subsequently as 

 professor. He published a book on the vineyards and wines of France, and a brief 

 treatise on the culture of truffles, and wrote largely for French agricultural journals. 

 A treatise on sylviculture, consisting of four volumes, of which two have appeared 

 and the otliers are in press, is also from his pen. In 1874 he was commissioned l)y the 

 French (iovernment to investigate the destruction of vineyards by the Phylloxera. 



Miscellaneous. — Wellesley College announces a course in general horticulture 

 and elementary landscape gardening. The course includes lectures on the prepara- 

 tion of soils, the propagation, cultivation, and pruning of plants, school gardens, 

 and planting designs; and a brief consideration of the plants used in practical plant- 

 ing. The lectures will be supplemented by reading, work in the greenhouse, prac- 

 tice in making planting plans, practical work in the field, and visits to gardens, 

 nurseries, and estates in the vicinity. The course covers one year and includes 3 

 hours a week for that period. It is in charge of Henry S. Adams, instructor in 

 botany. The college has also offered for a couple of years past a course in trees and 

 forestry, covering one year and including forest botany and sylviculture, the forests 

 of the world, value and uses of their products, and the protection of wood lands. 



Simmons College, Boston, offers a course in theoretical and practical horticulture 

 designed to aid yoimg women who wish to undertake the cultivation of flowers, 

 fruits, and vegetables for commercial or other purposes. The course serves also as a 

 practical basis for landscape gardening. It will extend over either three or four 

 years, the first two years to be spent in Boston studying the underlying sciences and 

 theoretical elements of horticulture, and the third year at the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College, as mentioned elsewhere. 



The Girls' Industrial College, at Denton, Texas, which was opened to students the 

 latter part of last Septemlier, will give consideraljle attention to the teaching of hor- 

 ticulture and ornamental gardening. This is provided for in the department of 

 rural arts, in charge of A. J. Seiders, which will embrace floriculture, horticulture, 

 truck and berry growing, dairying, bee keeping, and poultry keeping. Three new 

 greenhouses 18 by 40 ft. have been completed and a small nursery has been estab- 

 lished. The campus of about 70 acres will be devoted largely to landscape garden- 

 ing and forestry. 



The department of economics and sociology recently established by the Carnegie 

 Institution, in charge of Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor, has undertaken 

 the preparation of an economic history of the United States, embracing eleven sub- 

 jects. The second of these subjects, relating to agriculture and forestry, including 

 public land and irrigation interests, has been assigned to President K. L. Butterfield, 

 of the Rhode Island College. This part of the work, it is understood, will be carried 

 on with the collaboration of experts in various branches of agriculture. 



According to press reports, George C. Creelman, superintendent of farmers' insti- 

 tutes in Ontario, has been appointed president of the Ontario Agricultural College at 

 Guelph, to succeed Dr. James Mills, who has retired after twenty-five years of service 

 to become a member of the railway commission newly appointed by the Dominion 

 government. Mr. Creelman entered upon his duties Fel>ruary 1. 



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