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project took shape at a recent meeting of the French Association of Colonial 

 Agriculture and Colonization. A provisional committee has heen appointed to 

 organize the association, with M. de Lanessan as president, and vice-presidents 

 from Greal Britain, Germany, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Holland, Portugal, and 

 Prance. The headquarters of the organization will be in Paris. 



International Dairy Congress. — The Third International Dairy Congress will 

 be held at The Hague during the month of September. 1907. The general secre- 

 tary of the congress is Dr. A. J. Swaving, Lange Voorhout 88, The Hague, to 

 whom applications for membership should be sent. 



New Review of Hygiene. — The first number of the Hygienisches CentralMatt 

 lias been received. This is announced as a complete international review of 

 matters pertaining to the whole field of hygiene, and is edited by Dr. Paul 

 Sommerfeld, director of the laboratory at the Children's Hospital in Berlin, 

 with the assistance of a large number of specialists. The first issue contains 

 numerous abstracts of papers on drinking water, human nutrition, food mate- 

 rials, milk and dairy products, food inspection, and the meat industry. The 

 abstracts are to be printed in German. The CentralMatt will be issued fort- 

 nightly. 



Miscellaneous. — Prof. Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, dean of the Lawrence 

 Scientific School and professor of geology at Harvard University, died April 10 

 at the age of 65 years. Professor Shaler had made important contributions in 

 agricultural geology, notably upon soils and their origin. 



Prof. Adolf Emmerling, director of the agricultural chemical laboratory of 

 the experiment station at Kiel, and professor of agricultural chemistry in the 

 university, died March 17 at the age of 64. He had devoted much study to the 

 < hemical processes within the plant, and especially the formation of albuminoids 

 in plant tissues. 



The death is announced of Georges Barba, director of the Etiological Station 

 of Nimes. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle announces the death. March 20, of Count Oswald 

 de Kerehove, chief of the directing council of the State Botanic Garden at 

 Brussels, and the leading spirit in all public horticultural affairs in Belgium. 

 He was also the author of a work on palms and another on orchids. 



It is proposed to erect a marble bust of the late Prof. Th. von der Goltz in 

 the agricultural academy at Bonn-Poppelsdorf. and to establish scholarships in 

 his memory. A committee has been formed to solicit funds for the purpose. 



Dr. A. J. Ewert. formerly at Birmingham, England, has been chosen profes- 

 sor of botany at the University of Melbourne. Australia. 



The Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France has awarded the Thore 

 prize to Prof. G. de Istvanffi, director of the Royal Central Institute of Ann e- 

 lology of Hungary, on account of his investigations on the biology of the gray 

 rot of grapes, due to Botrytis cinerea. 



A station for testing agricultural machinery has been established at Breslau 

 under the auspices of the chamber of agriculture of the Province of Silesia. 

 It is under the directorship of Dr. Ernst Foerster. 



The Royal Seed Breeding Institute of Wurttemberg was established at 

 Hohenheim in December, 1905, under the directorship of Professor Fruwirth, 

 with Dr. II. Lang as assistant. 



It is announced in Science that about $50,000 has already been raised for the 

 new professorship of lumbering in the Yale Forest School of the $150,000 

 which is sou-lit as an endowment. In fourteen western States $44,000 wa„ 

 raised from sixty contributors, representing in the main corporations and firms. 



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