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ami fitorai^e purpose*^, and 8 are available for iniseellaneous puri)Oses. The building 

 iiJ ]n-ovi(leil witii the V)e!'?t modern arrangements for heating, lighting, ventilation, 

 and sanitation. Laboratories fully ecjuipjied with the most apj)rove(l appliances 

 and machines, many of which are of special design, are ])roviiled for botanical, 

 microscopic-physiological and plant-breeding investigations, analyti<-al work, germi- 

 nation tests, baking experiments, and studies of Alpine i)lants. The test plats fur- 

 nish a means for studies in breeding of cereals and for growth of typical varieties of 

 cereals, leguminous plants, grasses, and other useful i)lant«, as well as weeds, etc. 

 The station is especially well ecpiipped for studies in breeding of cereals (including 

 l)akiuL: tests I. and this is to be a prominent feature of its work. 



Miscellaneous. — There has been recently e.stablisheil l)y the National Society of 

 Agrit'ulture of France, a committee for the purpose of securing and erecting a monu- 

 ment to the memory of the late Louis de Vilmorin. The personnel of this committee 

 is given in Jonrtidl d' Agricultun' I'ratiqin', n. ser., 7 (1904), Xo. 18, pp. .374, 375. The 

 list embraces the names of many imlividuals who are prominent in agriculture and 

 allied subjects in France an:d elsewhere. The American membership consists of 

 Prof. C. S. Sargent, director of the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, Mass.; Dr. William 

 MacMurtrie, president of the Chemical Society of New York; and D. M. Ferry, 

 seed dealer, Detroit, Mich. SuV)scriptions to the fund for the erection of this monu- 

 ment may be addressed to the treasurer of the committee, Leon Bourguignon, 26 Rue 

 Jacob, Paris. 



Jean Dufour, professor of plant pathology and director of the viticultural station 

 connected with the agricultural exjieriment station of the Agricultural Listitute, 

 Lausanne, Switzerland, died late in 1903, in his forty-fourth year. An account of 

 his life and work is given by two of his colleagues in ('liroiiUjuc <ujrkole du Canton dc 

 Vaud, 17 (1904), Nos. 5, pp. 165-171; 7, pp. 2.3-5-242, of which journal Dufour was 

 one of the founders and editors. 



Dr. H. C. Miiller, vice-director of the experiment station and farm at Halle, has 

 been appointed director of the chemical control station at the same place, to succeed 

 Dr. L. Biihring, deceased. Dr. W. Kriiger, at the head of the bacteriological division 

 of the Halle Station, has succeeded Dr. ]\Iiiller as vice-director. 



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