1128 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Dr. D. E. Salmon, formerly chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry of this Depart- 

 ment, has accepted an offer of the Government of Uruguay to organize a bureau of 

 animal industry for that government, and will proceed to that country next 

 December. 



Prof. William Schlick, of St. John's College, Oxford, has been constituted profes- 

 sor of forestry. 



W. P. Wright, horticultural instructor in Kent County, has been appointed super- 

 intendent and lecturer of the horticultural department of the Southeastern Agricul- 

 tural College at Wye, England. A definite course along this line is to be established 

 at the college. 



The Cuban Government has recently instituted an official publication of the secre- 

 tary of agriculture, industry, and commerce, entitled Boletin Oficial de la Secretaria de 

 Agriculture/,, Industrie y Comercio, Vol. I, No. 1 of which has been received. It is 

 announced that the experiment station will be a contributor to this publication, and 

 the first number gives the full organization of the station, which includes 21 persons. 



Le Barabou is the name of a new French monthly publication, which is to be 

 devoted entirely to the study, culture, and uses of bamboo. It is published at Mons, 

 Belgium, by the editor, Jean Houzeau de Lehaie. The first number was issued Jan- 

 uary 15, and contains 40 octavo pages. 



The Ehine Province Dairy Institute at Ziilpich was removed to Griethausen, near 

 Cleve, on April 1, 1906. 



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