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total attendance was 1,094, which was far in excess of any previous year. Paul 

 Fischer, veterinarian in the college and station, has resigned to accept the newly 

 established professorship of bacteriology and animal pathology in Ohio University. 



Kentucky Station. — J. B. Marcum, of Jackson, Ky., has been made a member 

 of the governing board; J. W. Nutter has been appointed dairyman, and J. T>. Turner 

 and R. M. Allen clerks at the station. 



v. S. Department of Agriculture. — William Saunders, for the past thirty-eight 

 years Superintendent of Experimental Gardens and Grounds, died September 11, 

 1900, at the age of 78 years. He has been succeeded l)y B. T. Galloway, who in turn 

 has been succeeded Ijy Albert F. Woods as Chief of the Division of Vegetable Physi- 

 ology and Pathology. The Secretary of Agriculture has published the following 

 general order: "For the purpose of unifying the work of certain branches of the 

 Department it is hereby ordered that the Chief of the Division of Vegetable Physiol- 

 ogy and Pathology, the Chief of the Division of Agrostology, and the Chief of the 

 Division of Pomology confer upon all matters of general policy and plan with the 

 Superintendent of Experimental Gardens and Grounds, who is hereby designated as 

 Director of Plant Industry. In carrying out this order the several branches of the 

 Department named will maintain their present integrity and organization." A 

 laboratory for the physical and chemical study of road materials has been established 

 in the Division of Chemistry. "The object of the establishment of this laboratory 

 is to secure the widest possible knowledge of the nature of road materials, their 

 resistance to stress, their hardness, their power of absorbing water, their deportment 

 in freezing temperatures, their cementing properties when reduced to powder, either 

 alone or when mixed wit-h other substances, their chemical composition, and their 

 geological origin and distribution." 



Miscellaneous. — According to The Country Gentleman the Doylestown (Pa.) Farm 

 School has been proffered a 150-acre farm in Bucks County, valued at |50,000, on 

 condition that an endowment is provided for its maintenance. This is to be run as 

 an annex to the school at Doylestown, for training girls in farmhouse work. The 

 school has also received a contribution of $10,000 from a friend in Switzerland, to be 

 used for buying farms "on which graduates may test their abilities." 



From the same source it is learned that Union Academy at Belleville, N. Y., has 

 received a gift of $10,000 to establish a department of agricultural instruction. 



By a decree of the Minister of Agriculture of France there has been established a 

 Station of (Enology at Toulouse. The director will be J. Vincens. 



Personal Mention. —Dr. Oscar Loew, who for two years past has been connected 

 with the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology of this Department, has 

 been elected professor of agricultural chemistry in the University of Tokyo, Japan, 

 and will enter upon his duties there at once. 



Dr. J. Behrens has been chosen director, and has entered upon the duties at the 

 recently established Viticultural Experiment Station at Weinsberg, in Wiirtemburg. 



Dr. O. Mattirolo, professor of botany in the Institute of Florence, has become 

 professor ordinary in botany at the University of Turin. 



Dr. F. Cavara, late of the Forest Academy at Vallambrosa, has been chosen 

 professor extraordinary in botany in the University of Cagliari. 



Dr. A. Maurizio, of the Experiment Station for Milling in Berlin, has become 

 assistant in botany in the Federal Agricultural Experiment Station at Ziirich. 



Dr. A. Richter has been chosen director of the Botanical Institute and Gardens at 

 Klausenburg. 



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