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California Polytechnic School. — A copy of the second annual catalogue of this school 

 has been received from Dr. Lero}' Anderson, the director. The school, it will be 

 rememl>ered, opened last September, and the catalogue shows twenty students in 

 attendance. Courses of study, with practical work, are offered in agriculture, 

 mechanics, and domestic science. A temporary dairy room and a carpenter shop are 

 fitted up in the basement of the main building, and there are lecture and laboratory 

 rooms for chemistry and physics, botany and entomology. The farm consists of 280 

 acres of land and contains a small orchard of apples, oranges, limes, and grapes. A 

 good beginning has been made with live stock, and it is planned ultimately to pro- 

 duce all the dairy and poultry products used jjy the school upon the farm. The 

 auspicious opening of the school and the fact that it has attracteil students from quite 

 a distance is encouragement for the belief that a career of wide influence and useful- 

 ness is open to it. 



Agricultural Education and Research in India. — The previous announcement (E. S. R., 

 15, p. 733) regarding the establishment of an institution for agricultural education 

 and research at Pusa, in the Darbhangah District of Bengal, with an endowment pro- 

 vided by Mr. Henry Phipps, of Pittsburg, is confirmed by an article in the London 

 Times, which is noted in Xaiure for April 7 and Science for April 22. The college is 

 to be known as the Imperial Agricultural College, and it is hoped will be ready to 

 receive students a year from next fall. The principal of the institution is Mr. Ber- 

 nard Coventry, who has been manager of the Dalsingh Serai estate. The staff of the 

 station is to consist of 2 chemists — one being also a bacteriologist, 2 botanists — one 

 cryptogamic and the other "biological," and an entomologist. In commenting upon 

 the new institution Xature says: 



"This .scheme ought to grow into an institution of the utmost value to India, a 

 country which is full of agricultural industries, involving great interests, yet pro- 

 ceeding wholly by rule of thumb tempered by occasional analyses performed in Lon- 

 don. Systematic investigations of the conditions of the industr}' on the spot have 

 been wanting except latterly among the tea planters of Ceylon and Assam. Indigo 

 growing affords a case in point; for j-ears it was obvious that the natural product was 

 going to meet with severe if not ruinous competition, yet nothing was done until the 

 artificial indigo had reached the position of being able to undersell the Indian article, 

 then at last a chemist and a V)acteriologist were hurried out to try to save the failing 

 industry. . . . The new institute at Pusa will be well situated among some of 

 the best agricultural developments in India, so that the scientific staff will have an 

 opportunity of learning where their skill can be of service to the cultivator, and of 

 trying to keep this or that industry in a healthj^ condition instead of being called 

 upon to resuscitate it when in extremis. There maj^ be even now a chance for the 

 grower of indigo if only he is given some of the systematic scientific effort which has 

 hitherto been the monopoly of his competitor." 



Agricultural Schools in Brazil. — ^lilton M. L^nderdown, writing in The Country 

 (k'ntleman for April 28, 1904, descriljes the conditions respecting agricultural instruc- 

 tion in Brazil, and the ups and downs of one practical school in particular. He 

 sjieaks of the state experiment station at Sao Paulo as "a very creditable institution," 

 but his general account of the condition of agricultural education in that country is 

 not encouraging. 



Miscellaneous. — Prof. F. Lamson-Scribner has resigned his jiosition as Chief of the 

 Bureau of Agriculture of the Philippines and has reentered the service of this 

 Department in the Bureau of Plant Industry. He will be in charge of the latter's 

 exhibit at St. Louis during the exposition. 



Hon. Levi Stockbridge, for many years professor of agriculture at the 3Iassachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, died at the home of his son, Dr. H. ¥.. Stockbridge, Lake 

 City, Fla., May 3, after a short illness. He was 84 years of age. 

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