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Tennessee Station. — The executive committee of the station has been reorganized 

 with J. W. Caldwell, of Knoxville, as chairman, and J. B. Killebrew, of Nashville, and 

 Harris Brown, of Gallatin, as additional members. At the semiannual meeting of 

 the board of trustees Andrew M. Soulewas elected vice-director of the station, in addi- 

 tion to his duties as professor of agriculture and agriculturist. The vice-director w411 

 henceforth supervise the work and business of the station under the direction of the 

 president. There are 35 students attending the dairy school, and a keen interest and 

 appreciation of the work the station and college of agriculture are doing is evidenced 

 on every hand. The agricultural yearbook for 1891 was recently issued, and has 

 proved very jiopular among the farmers all over the South. In fact, the demand for 

 publications has become so great that with the limited resources at the command of 

 the station it is becoming a difficult prol)lem to meet the call for station literature. 



Fifth International Congress of Zoology. — The preliminary announcement of 

 the Fifth International Congress of Zoology, to be held at Berlin, August 12-16, has 

 been received. In addition to the regular sessions of the congress and of sections, 

 various excursions are planned to zoological museums, gardens, institutes and other 

 institutions likely to be of interest to zoologists, a reception, and a banquet. The 

 formal meetings of the congress will conclude Friday noon, and in the afternoon the 

 delegates will proceed to Hamburg, visiting the national-history museum and the 

 zoological gardens, and on Sunday (August 18) an excursion to Heligoland to visit 

 the biological station there is planned. Anyone interested in zoology may become 

 a member of the congress on payment of $5, which will insure a report of the con- 

 gress. All correspondence relating to the congress or to the programme should be 

 addressed to the president of the congress, 43 Invalidenstrasse, Berlin, N. 4. 



Agricultural Experimentation and Education in the "West Indies. — At the 

 third agricultural congress, held at Barbados, January 5, Dr. D. Morris, commissioner 

 of agriculture for the AVest Indies, described the progress which is being made 

 under the Imperial Department of Agriculture in the direction of agricultural experi- 

 mentation and investigation. "During the year three new experiment stations 

 have been establishment at Montserrat and one at Tortola for the Virgin Islands. 

 At the present time there are 9 botanic stations maintained from imperial funds 

 under the charge of the Imperial Department of Agriculture. In addition, there are 

 20 substations, or experiment plats, started at Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, and 

 Dominica to encourage the improved cultivation of cacao, coffee, limes, and other 

 crops. There are 12 central, manurial, and local stations associated with the sugar- 

 cane experiments at Barbados, 7 similar stations at Antigua, and 3 at St. Kitts-Nevis. 

 Experimental cultivation with food and other crojis will be carried on in connection 

 with all the agricultural schools. ' ' During the past year lectures to teachers in charge 

 of elementary schools have been carried on in every part of the West Indies, and the 

 belief is expressed that within a year or two, in the smaller islands at least, every 

 teacher in charge of a school should be qualified, not only to give a certain amount 

 of instruction in the principles of agriculture, but also to interest the children by 

 simple experiments followed by practical demonstrations in the cultivation of plants 

 suited to the district. The first agricultural school in the West Indies affording 



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