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been engaged in finding a new design for registering anemometers, and has had three 

 made for precise work. M. Ringelmann, director of the station for testing machinery, 

 has undertaken to arrange an international convention which the commission 

 believes will have a very beneficial effect on manufacturers of windmills for raising 

 water. The arrangements have met with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture. 



Agricultural Exposition in Paraguay. — The National Agricultural Society of Para- 

 guay will hold an exposition at Asuncion, beginning May 15, 1906. The exposition 

 will include exhibits of live plants, fruit, and cultivated plant products, rural indus- 

 tries, dairy industries, poultry and apiculture, and sericulture. 



Miscellaneous. — It is learned from Nature that a number of men interested in agri- 

 cultural problems recently gathered at Christiania, Norway, under the presidency of 

 Prof. John Sebelien, to celebrate the acquisition of national independence. A fund 

 was started for the purpose of fostering research in Norwegian agriculture, to which 

 all Norwegians both at home and abroad have been invited to subscribe. When the 

 sum reaches 15,000 crowns (about $4,000) it is proposed to offer prizes for essays on 

 particular questions, and to reward Norwegian scientific work in certain branches of 

 learning; and later it is the intention to give direct financial aid to research work in 

 agricultural science. 



The government of the Gold Coast has established experimental cotton farms at 

 Anum and Labolabo, for the purpose of testing varieties of cotton and determining 

 the best time of planting cotton for that region. 



The Botanical and Agricultural Department of the Gold Coast provides annually 

 an elementary course in theoretical and practical agriculture at the Aburi Garden to 

 train teachers in agriculture for the public schools. The department also maintains 

 apprenticeships to prepare young men for subordinate positions in the department 

 or for overseers of farms and plantations. 



The agricultural chemical experiment station at Spalato, Austria, has been pro- 

 vided with commodious and thoroughly modern quarters in the new building of the 

 Royal Agricultural Institute for Teaching and Experimentation. An illustrated 

 description of the new building is given in the January issue of Zetischrift far dux 

 Landvrirtschaftliche I r ersuchswesen in Oesterreich. 



Prof. S. P. Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in this city, died 

 February 27. 



Dr. A. W. Harris, formerly director of this Office, and at present director of the 

 Jacob Tome Institute at Port Deposit, Md., has been elected president of the North- 

 western University. Dr. Harris will enter upon his new duties in the fall. 



The death is announced of Dr. H. Ritthausen, professor of agricultural chemistry 

 in the University of Konigsberg until his retirement in 1900, and widely known for 

 his investigations upon the albuminoids. 



Prof. A. Zimmermann, director of the biological agricultural institute at Amani, 

 German East Africa, has been appointed director of the agronomic station at 

 Salatiga, Java. 



Dr. Friedrich Petersen, an official of the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture at Ber- 

 lin, is traveling in this country for the purpose of studying the breeding of cattle and 

 horses especially, and agricultural conditions in general. 



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