730 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



A iitw journal of entomology, entitled Rcxlia, has recently been established under 

 the editorship of A. Berlese. The journal is published in Portici, Italy, and is 

 designed to include original works on Arthropods, especially on the anatomy, 

 biology, physiology, and classification of insects. 



At the jubilee meeting of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, held in Edin- 

 burgh last month, a resolution was agreetl to, according to a note in Nature, express- 

 ing the opinion that the Board of Agriculture should now take steps to give effect to 

 the reconnnendation of the Departmental Committee on Forestry so far as Scotland 

 was concerned, by providing an estate to serve as a state forest demonstration area, 

 and also by providing experimental plats in connection with Edinburgh University. 

 The resolution also expressed the view that education in forestry in that country 

 would not be adequately provided for until these facilities were supplied and a 

 thoroughly equipped forestry school was established in Scotland. 



The agricultural college for women founded by Lady Warwick about five years 

 ago, and since conducted at Reading, is reported in Mark Lane Express to be about 

 to acquire a new location at Studley Castle, Warwickshire. The new location will 

 afford ample accommodation for 60 students, and suitable rooms for lecture rooms 

 and laboratories. A park of 360 acres surrounds the house, while immediately 

 attached to the castle are large gardens of every description, with a pinetum, 

 orangery, rock garden, and about 600 ft. of glass. The grounds are well suited for 

 poultry keeping; and fruit preserving rooms, laundry, workshop, marketing office, 

 etc., can be fitted up in some of the numerous outbuildings. It is the object of the 

 founder to make the college second to none in the country for the training of women 

 in carrying out the lighter branches of agriculture, such as the production of butter, 

 cheese, poultry, eggs, vegetables, fruit, and flowers. 



We note from the London Times, through Science, that the British Board of Agri- 

 culture has asked the governors of the Southeastern Agricultural College at Wye, 

 Kent, to consider a scheme for establishing local field stations for experiments and 

 for providing special courses of training in the processes of agriculture. The board 

 has also suggested the appointment of an instructor in poultry-raising for the coun- 

 ties of Kent and Surrey. A scheme for establishing school gardens throughout the 

 county of Kent is already under consideration. This, it is understood, has the 

 approval of the Board of Agriculture, and no difficulty in obtaining their sanction 

 for the expenditure of the necessary money is anticipated. The technical education 

 funds of the county will bear the cost of the experiment. 



Xature states that the Municipal Council of Paris has adopted a proposal of M. 

 Bussat for the foundation of a laboratory of applied physiology. The scheme out- 

 lined by M. Bussat for the w'ork to be undertaken in such a laboratory includes 

 studies of the nutritive value of foods, muscular work, intoxication, etc. 



It is learned from the same source that a horticultural and gardening exhibition 

 is to be held in June under the auspices of the Royal Botanic Society in the new 

 exhibition grounds of the society in Regents Park, London. The plan of the exhi- 

 bition includes horticulture, forestry, botany, educational methods, nature study, 

 and colonial products. Arrangements are being made for lectures and conferences 

 to be held in connection with the exhibition. 



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