800 EXPERIMENT STATION KECORD. 



secondary education for boys was opened at St. Vincent in September, and a similar 

 school was opened at Dominica in December, 1900. It is planned to estaljlish two 

 more agricultural schools the present year, one at St. Lucia and another, combining 

 the characters of an agricultural school and grammar school, at St. Kitts. Seven 

 scholarships in agriculture at Harrison College, Barljados, have been established by 

 the Imperial Department of Agriculture. Agricultural fairs have been successfully 

 conducted, and have proved of value in stimulating effort toward better production. 

 The Department of Agriculture has encouraged these by prizes amounting to £350 

 and the distribution of 100 diplomas. 



^IiscELLAXEors. — Cougress has ordered a reprint of 5,000 copies of Bulletin No. 80 

 of this Office, the account of the agricultural experiment stations of the United States, 

 prepared for the Paris Exposition. Of this revise the Department of Agriculture is 

 to have 2,000 copies. 



Science states that a committee has been appointed by the president of the British 

 board of agriculture to conduct experimental investigations regarding the commu- 

 nicability of glanders under certain conditions, and the arresting and curative powers 

 of mallein when repeatedly administered. The committee consists of A. C. Cope, 

 chief veterinary officer of the board of agriculture; J. McFadyean, principal of the 

 Royal Veterinary College; William Hunting, veterinary inspector; and J. Mcintosh 

 IMcCall, assistant veterinary officer of the board of agriculture. 



As a result of correspondence of a committee of the Society of Plant Morphology 

 and Physiology with the editor of the Botanisches Cenfrnlblatt, urging certain changes 

 in that journal, the editor announces that hereafter the regular series of the Central- 

 blatt will be confined to abstracts and reviews of new literature. The original articles 

 will be published in the Beihefte or supplements issued from time to time, and the 

 regular series of the Beihefte can be subscribed for separately. An American ])oard 

 of editors of the Centralblatt, to be selected by the society, is also provided for. It is 

 thought that these changes will make the Centralblatt a more valuable medium through 

 which American botanists may keep posted on the progress of their science and the 

 new literature relating to it. 



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