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Bernburg Station, made famous by the work of Hellriegel and Wilfarth on nitrogen 

 assimilation by legumes. He has also been given the title of professor. 



It is noted from Science that Dr. Pehr Olsson-Seffer, for the past two years instructor 

 in botany in Stanford University, has been selected to take charge of a botanical 

 station in tropical Mexico for the investigation of problems connected with the culti- 

 vation of rubber and coffee. The station is established by companies which own 

 twelve large plantations in the region where it is to be located, devoted to the raising 

 of rubber and coffee. 



The Carnegie Institution has established a department of botanical research, to 

 include the Desert Laboratory and other botanical projects. Dr. D. T. MacDougal, 

 assistant director of the New York Botanical Gardens, has become director of the 

 newly organized department. 



The North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race has 

 recently completed a new laboratory for soil physics, which is well provided with 

 apparatus for determining specific gravity, apparent specific gravity, volume weight, 

 porosity, and other characteristics of soils. 



The market-day lectures, delivered under the auspices of the County Technical 

 Laboratories at Chelmsford during 1904-5, reference to which has previously been 

 made, have been published in abstract by the Essex Education Committee. 



Studley College Agricultural Journal is the title of a new journal issued by Lady 

 "Warwick's agricultural college. In the first number J. C. Medd points out a new- 

 opening for students of that college and the college at Swanley as teachers of nature 

 study in village schools. Several counties are said to be appointing peripatetic 

 teachers of nature study to attend to groups of adjacent schools, and it is predicted 

 that with a sufficient supply of efficient teachers, demand for their services will steadily 

 increase. 



