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the cordial assistance oi the Government and other authorities, 

 both in Canada and the United States. It is hoped to publish a 

 Report during the course of the ensuing autumn. 



A Chair of Agriculture for Aberdeen University. (Nature, 

 vol. 84, p. 96. London, July 21,1910). 



Lord Strathcona has given Aberdeen University a sum of 10 ooo 

 (252500 francs) towards the endowment of a Chair of Agriculture. 

 The interest on this money along with the annual revenue of the 

 Fordyce lecture-ship on Agriculture and Rural Economy and 450 

 a year in the charge of the governors of the college for the same 

 purpose will enable the University to secure the services of a thor- 

 oughly competent authority on the subject. 



The John Innes Horticultural Institution. (Journal Board of 

 Agric. London, p. 853, Febr. 1909). 



The late Mr. John Innes, of Merton, in Surrey, who died in 1904, 

 left a large sum of money for various charitable objects, one of 

 which was the foundation of a School of Horticulture. A scheme 

 for the administration of the charity has been prepared by the Cha- 

 rity Commission, and has recently been published. The scheme pro- 

 vides for the payment by the trustees of yearly sums out of the income 

 of the charity for the maintenance of a park and a boys' club at Merton, 

 for the provision of scholarships tenable at a local school, and for 

 other charitable objects. With the exception of these sums and 

 certain annuities left by the late Mr. Innes, which together amount 

 to an aggregate yearly sum of about 4 400, the residue of the 

 estate, which is estimated to produce about 5 ooo per annum 

 (126 250 francs), will be applied to the purposes of an institution, 

 to be called the John Innes Horticultural Institution, for the pro- 

 motion of horticultural instruction, experiment, and research. For 

 the purposes of the Institution the house formerly known as the 

 Manor Farm, Merton, and such portion, not exceeding two acres, 

 of the grounds as the trustees may select, will be used, and in 

 addition the trustees are empowered, subject to the approval of 

 the Charity Commissioners, to provide further land, of which a suf- 

 ficiently large acreage; in the immediate neighbourhood is available. 



The Institution will be placed under the management of a Council 

 consisting of three trustees (ex-officio members) and nine represen- 



