It was erected at a cost of 20,000 (505 ooo francs), after the 

 designs of Mr. Arnold Mitchel. 



The accomodation is designed for 100 students. The building 

 contains three lecture rooms, two large elementary laboratories for 

 chemistry and botany respectively, seven smaller rooms for private 

 research, as well as a library and private rooms for the teaching staff. 



The building is barely sufficient for the number of students 

 coming forward. 



Among the works exhibited at the inauguration was a series 

 illustrating the work of Professors Wood and Biffen in connection 

 with the improvement of English wheats. 



Establishment of a Department of Agriculture at Man- 

 chester University. (The Journ. of the Board of Agric.; 

 London, March 1910, vol. XVI, No. 12, p. 1037). 



In view of the increasing importance of the scientific aspects 

 of the subject, the University of Manchester has decided to establish 

 a course in Agriculture leading to a degree in Science. 



The course will extend over three years, the first of which 

 will as a rule be taken entirely at the University, while the second 

 and third years will be taken partly at the University and partly 

 at the College of Agriculture of the County Council of Cheshire 

 at Holmes Chapel. 



British Deputation investigating methods of Agricultural 

 Education and Research in the United States. (Nature, 

 Vol. 84, July yth, 1910, p. 28). 



Early in the present year University College, Reading, appointed 

 a deputation to visit certain Universities of Canada and of the 

 United States with the object of investigating methods 6f Agricul- 

 tural education and research. The Deputation left England on 

 May 6th, and was absent about six weeks. The tour included the 

 McGill University at Montreal, the Macdonald College at St. Anne 

 de Bellevue, the State Experimental Farm at Ottawa, the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto, the Ontario College of Agriculture at Guelph,. 

 Cornell University, Wisconsin University and Harvard University. 

 In each case the members of the Deputation made it their prin- 

 cipal object to acquaint themselves with the agricultural activities 

 of the institution visited, and their work was greatly facilitated by 



