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the latest reports given in Marl- Lane Express is looked upon with favor. Last year 

 over $5,000 was spent on agricultural education in the county, about $2,000 being 

 given to the agricultural department of Aberdeen University and the remainder 

 spent by the education committee on local classes. The new college would under- 

 take the whole of the work in agricultural education, bringing about a thorough 

 coordination of efforts in this direction, and the amount of money heretofore avail- 

 able would be doubled by the promised grant from the eibicatiou department, which, 

 it appears, has signified its dissatisfaction with the ])resent arrangement. The Aber- 

 deen County secondary education committee has appointed a subcommittee to confer 

 with the county finance committee with reference to recommending a sum which the 

 county might appropriate for the new college. 



Forestry Exhibition at Perth. — An exhibition of objects relating to forestry in all of 

 its branches is to be held in the show yard of the Highland and Agricultural Society 

 at Perth, Scotland, in July, under the auspices of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society. Prizes are offered for collective exhibits of timber grown in Scotland, 

 for a report on the damage done to forest trees by insect pests and the measures 

 which have been successfully adopted for their extermination, specimens showing 

 the comparative quality of larch timber grown on different soils and situations and 

 the respective ages at which it reaches marketable size and maturity, examples 

 showing the best methods of utilizing small wood in the manufacture of fancy wood 

 articles, for a scientific instrument for expeditiously measuring the diameter of trees 

 at a given height, and for the best exhibit of timber preserved by a practical and 

 economical process. 



Prize Competition. — The Association of Berlin Butter Dealers has offered the 

 following prizes: (1) 3,000 marks for a method of determining palm fat in butter, 

 (2) 1,000 marks for a method of determining palm fat in lard, and (.3) 2,000 marks 

 for a method of determining lard in butter. The methods must ])e capable of being 

 carried out in a properly equipped laboratory in a day, must not cost more than 6 

 marks for a determination, and must be accurate in mixtures containing 15 per cent 

 of the foreign substance. The competition is open until February 1, 1905. The 

 address of the association is Verein Berliner Butterkaufleute, Alexander strasse 64, 

 Berlin. 



Personal Mention. — George A. Putnam has been appointed to succeed G. C. Creel- 

 man as suiterintendent of farmers' institutes in the Province of Ontario, Canada. 



It is reported in Science that L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University, will superintend 

 the nature-study courses in the summer session, at the University of Tennessee. 



President Andrew S. Draper, of the University of Illinois, has resigned to become 

 commissioner of education in New York State, under the new unification bill which 

 has recently received the governor's signature. 



The death is announced of Henry Michaelson, supervisor of the Pikes Peak For- 

 estry Reserve and a writer on matters relating to irrigation and forestry. 



It is reported in Science that Prof. E. von Behring will succeed Prof. Robert 

 Koch as head of the Berlin Institute for Infectious Di.seases, and that the Prassian 

 Government will take over the serum institute founded by Professor von Behring in 

 the neighborhood of Marburg. 



Prof. Ludwig Biihring, successor to Prof. IM. Maercker as director of the Halle 

 Agricultural Chemical Control Station, died suddenly February 15 at the age of 58. 



Dr. F. W. Dafert, director of the Agricultural Chemical Experiment Station of 

 Vienna, has been called by the Austrian ministry of agriculture to the position of 

 director of the department of agricultural experiment stations. Prof. Johann Wolf- 

 bauer has been appointed acting director of the Vienna Station. 



Miscellaneous. — The bill before the New York legislature to appropriate $250,000 

 for Ijuildings and e(iuipment for the College of Agriculture at Cornell University con- 

 tinues to meet with considerable opposition, in which the presidents of six or seven 



