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of California, preferably for endowment of agricultural education and research. 

 President Wheeler has expressed his belief thai the trustees of the university will 

 assume the responsibilities involved in accepting this trust. 



international Congress of Agriculture.- -The Eighth International Congress of Agri- 

 Culture will be held at Vienna, Austria, May 21 25, L907. The previous Congresses 

 wen- held at Paris, L889; The Hague, 1891; Brussels, 1895; Budapest, 1896; Lau- 

 sanne, 1898; Paris, 1900, and Rome, L903. A pamphlet has been issued giving the 

 organization, regulations, and programme <>i' the forthcoming congress. This con- 

 tains the subjects for discussion of each <>t the eleven Bectione in which the congress 

 is to be divided. All reports intended for tin- congress should be sent to tin- execu- 

 tive committee before December I, L906. Persona desirous of becoming members 

 should uotify the executive committee and pay the membership fee of 20 kronen 

 (S4 ) before March 31, L907. The secretary of the executive committee is Prof. Josef 

 Hiiusler, Vienna, Austria, 1. Schauflergasse 6. 



Indian forestry college. — In order to make better provisions for research work in 

 forestry, and to secure a permanent staff of forest experts for scientific research, as 

 well as for training candidates for the government and state forestry service, the 

 Imperial Forestry School at Dehra Dun, India, has been enlarged and hereafter will 

 be known as the Imperial Forestry Research Institute and College. Tin- college 

 staff will include officers of the imperial service, holding the following positions: 

 (1) Sylviculturist, who will make sylviculture his special study. [2) Superintend- 

 ent of Forest Working Plans, who will collect and collate statistics of the results of 

 forestry management throughout India. (3) Forest Zoologist, who will investigate 

 the damages caused by insects and other pests. (4) Forest Botanist, who will study 

 the botany of forest plants, distribution of species, diseases of forest trees, <-tc 

 (5) Forest chemist, who will investigate the chemical properties of soil- and forest 

 produce. (6) Forest Economist, who will Btudy economic methods of commercial 

 timber production and marketing. 



These officers, while engaged primarily in research work, will each delivers course 

 of lectures on his special subject in the college, and take part in the training of the 

 students. The work of instruction, however, will for the most part be carried on 

 by four assistant instructors. 



Miscellaneous. — Science Progress, published in London from 1894 to L898, has been 

 revived under the name Science Progress in tin Twentieth Century. The journal is to 

 be issued quarterly. Theiirst number contains, among others, articles on The Sol- 

 vent Action of Roots upon the Soil Particles, by A. I >. Hall; On the Occurrence of 

 Prussic Acid and it.- Derivatives in Plants, by T. A. Henry; Some Notable Instances 

 of the Distribution of Injurious Insects by Artificial Mean-, by F. V. Theobald; The 

 Corn Smuts and their Propagation, by T. Johnson; and the Utilization of Proteids 

 in the Animal, by F. G. Hopkins. 



J. B. Mowry has been appointed commissioner of forestry in Rhode Island. 



William Fanvr, wheat specialist to the department of agriculture of New South 

 Wales, died April 17, 1906. -Mr. Farrer was noted especially for his work m the 

 improvement of wheat by cross-breeding and selection, particularly m the direc- 

 tion of producing types resistant to rust and drought 



Prof. Gustav W. Lehman, prominent as a food chemist, died m Baltimore, August 

 5, P. nit;. 



Dr. George W. Atherton, president of The Pennsylvania state College, died at that 

 place July 24, 1906. 



Last autumn, in the hope that a milder climate might !>«■ helpful, he went to south- 

 ern California, where he -pent the winter. Although the change for a tunc seemed 

 beneficial, yet the relief proved to be but temporary. Upon his return home he 

 gradually grew weaker until his disease culminated in death. At the last com- 

 mencement, although extremely weak, he expressed a desire to meet the graduating 



